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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prize-weizmann-institute-professor-landmark-work-stem-cell
December 12, 2002
Prof. Yair Reisner of the Institute's Immunology Department will be awarded the Daniele Chianelli Prize on December 15, 2002, commemorating his work of over 20 years on incompatible stem cell transplantation. Bone marrow or stem cell tranplantation is a crucial part of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/new-program-integrate-archaeology-and-natural-sciences
April 30, 2006
The Weizmann Institute of Science and Bar-Ilan University sign agreement Representatives of Bar-Ilan University and the Weizmann Institute of Science have signed an agreement to collaborate on a unique program for multidisciplinary teaching and research in archaeolo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/sling-effect-clouds-brings-rain
October 30, 2002
Weizmann Institute physicists have revealed that turbulence in clouds can accelerate rain formation. In a study published in Nature, they developed a formula that makes it possible to calculate how fast tiny droplets within clouds cluster into heavy, rain-producing drops. The res...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/weizmann-institute-scientists-discover-molecular-security-mechanism-keeping-mutations
May 4, 2006
Everyone knows mutations – genetic mistakes in DNA, the material of heredity – are bad: The more mutations in the cell’s DNA, the higher the risk of cancer developing. But in the last few years it has become clear that the very processes that generate mutations, if they t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/forty-year-old-theory-promoted-fact
October 24, 2002
‘TWIN SISTER’ MECHANISM PREVENTS FORMATION OF GENETIC MUTATIONS Twenty thousand hits per day – that’s the average dose of damage sustained by the genes within each cell of our body. How are innumerable mutations avoided? In a study published in the October issue of Mole...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/getting-message-across
May 8, 2006
A team of scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science has identified some basic principles of communication How do we succeed in putting our ideas into words, so that another person can understand them? This complex undertaking involves translating an idea into a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/prestigious-award-computer-science-weizmann-institutes-scientist
April 15, 2003
Prof. Adi Shamir, a computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, has been named a 2002 winner of the A.M. Turing Award, regarded in academic circles as the 'Nobel Prize' of computer science. Shamir shares the award with Ronald L. Rivest of the Massachusetts Ins...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/lost-thought
May 17, 2006
What happens in our brains when we “lose ourselves” in an experience? Can one literally 'lose oneself' in an experience? Many theoretical models of the mind reject this notion, proposing that awareness is dependent on the mediation of areas involved in self represent...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-humans-lost-their-scents
March 1, 2003
In at least one type of endeavor, humans can’t even begin to compete with their best friends. Dogs can be trained to sniff out drugs and explosives or to track down a crime suspect by smell. Why can’t we do the same? Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/experiment-may-help-size-neutrinos
March 1, 2003
Our planet is bombarded every second with a large number of chargeless, seemingly massless, particles that originate in nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun. They're called neutrinos. According to The Standard Solar Model – the most substantiated model of the sun –...
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