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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/molecular-mechanism-diabetes-vaccine-revealed
June 19, 2006
A team of researchers led by Prof. Irun Cohen of the Weizmann Institute of Science Immunology Department has revealed the molecular mechanism of a vaccine for Type 1 diabetes. The new findings should help amplify the effectiveness of the vaccine, which is currently in advanced st...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/tiny-airborne-particles-are-major-cause-climate-change
July 17, 2006
The local effect of atmospheric aerosols can be greater than the greenhouse effect A scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and his colleagues caused a storm in the atmospheric community when they suggested a few years back that tiny air-borne particles, known...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/scientists-discover-genetic-code-organizing-dna-within-nucleus
July 19, 2006
DNA – the long, thin molecule that carries our hereditary material – is compressed around protein scaffolding in the cell nucleus into tiny spheres called nucleosomes. The bead-like nucleosomes are strung along the entire chromosome, which is itself folded and package...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/first-sightings-individual-proteins-they-fold
March 1, 2003
Proteins, it appears, have taken Frank Sinatra's "I Did It My Way" close to heart. A new study published in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals how single proteins, each a few nanometers (billionths of a meter) long, fold to assume...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/bacteria-beat-heat
August 30, 2006
How do some microorganisms manage to exist and even thrive in surroundings ranging from Antarctica to boiling hot springs? A team of scientists from the Weizmann Institute’s Plant Sciences Department, led by Prof. Avigdor Scherz, has found that a switch in just two amino acids (t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/nmr-movie
February 24, 2003
Ten construction workers will often get a job done faster than one. But in digging a deep well, for instance, ten workers are a waste of human resources: the diggers can't work simultaneously, as the second worker isn't able to start digging until the first one has finished, and...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/time-space
August 30, 2006
Stars may lead fascinating lives but sometimes, it’s in death that they really shine. Some stars finish up as black holes but, a moment before the end, they explode, sending material in all directions and shining with a light that can be seen throughout the universe. This end onl...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/dust-gust
December 26, 2006
The health of the Brazilian rain forest depends on dust from one valley in Africa More than half of the dust needed for fertilizing the Brazilian rainforest is supplied by a valley in northern Chad, according to an international research team headed by Dr. Ilan Koren of t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cancer-diagnosis-technique-gets-fda-clearance
September 23, 2003
Thanks to a diagnostic imaging technique that should soon be finding its way to medical establishments, many patients could be spared the pain and risk of biopsies. The technique, called 3TP, has recently received FDA clearance for use in the detection of breast and prostate canc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-method-developed-weizmann-institute-science-holds-promise-treating-brain-injuries
January 16, 2007
An injury to the brain can be devastating. When brain cells die, whether from head trauma, stroke or disease, a substance called glutamate floods the surrounding areas, overloading the cells in its path and setting off a chain reaction that damages whole swathes of tissue. Gluta...
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