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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/sfn-young-investigator-award-prof-nachum-ulanovsky
October 6, 2015
Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky, Recipient of the SfN Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/delicate-demolition
May 19, 2016
Imagine taking a bulldozer that is normally used to demolish entire mountains and employing it to mold a fragile vessel. That’s just what living cells do. Ruinous enzymes called caspases, which often help cells to self-destruct, can sometimes serve to separate out or gently remod...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/neuron-networks-lead-consensus
May 23, 2016
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. James Madison A new study at the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests that the nerve networks in our brain may function democratically; the behavio...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/me-and-my-cellulosome
May 23, 2016
Although humans and cows have very different diets, new research shows that we share with them at least one tool for digesting our food. Specifically, we share a common type of bacterium living in our respective digestive systems that bears this tool -- a protein complex called a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/receptive-stress
May 26, 2016
In the face of stress, our body diverts metabolic resources to its emergency response. It has been thought that the sympathetic nervous system – the body’s instinctive system for reacting to stress – directs this activity, but Weizmann Institute of Science research now shows that...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/école-polytechnique-and-weizmann-institute-science-sign-cooperation-agreement
May 26, 2016
Jacques Biot, President of École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France), and Prof. Daniel Zajfman, President of the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel), signed a cooperation agreement to develop and promote collaboration in higher education and research between the two ins...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/ribosomes-recruited-beginning-–-and-end
June 2, 2016
Once the structure of the ribosome – the protein-making machinery of the cell – was solved, new questions about how these machines work arose. For example: How does a strand of messenger RNA (mRNA) recruit the ribosome to start building the protein it encodes? How does the riboso...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/barbara-liskov-weizmann-women-and-science-award
June 9, 2016
“In 1972, when I joined MIT, there was a faculty of 1,000. Ten of those were women,” said Prof. Barbara Liskov at the Weizmann Women and Science Award ceremony. “My husband and I attended a reception for new faculty that fall, and the chairman of the board walked up to us, turned...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/technology-applications/weizmann-institute-science-announces-visiting-scientist
June 5, 2016
The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and Yeda Research and Development Co., Ltd., its commercial arm, announced this week that they have entered a multi-year arrangement with Pfizer Inc. The arrangement will entail collaboration at the newly established Institut...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/blocking-pumps-eye-block-glaucoma
June 13, 2016
Glaucoma, a group of eye diseases affecting millions of people, is a leading cause of blindness around the world. Weizmann Institute scientists, in collaboration with ophthalmologists, have now developed a new compound that may help treat glaucoma by combating its major symptom:...
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