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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/staff-scientist-dr-lorne-levinson
August 8, 2016
Name: Dr. Lorne Levinson Department: Physics, Head of the Electronics and Data Acquisition Group “Building scientific, electronic instruments that cannot be bought,” says Staff Scientist Lorne Levinson when asked to describe his job as Head of the Electronics and Data Acqui...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/insect-swarms-may-resemble-star-clusters
August 11, 2016
Scientists have long been fascinated by the collective behavior of animals. The coordinated motion of schools of fish or flocks of birds, for example, can be built up from short-range interactions where individuals tend to move much like their neighbours. Swarming insects, howeve...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/universal-immunity-0
August 11, 2016
Our immune system has ample weapons for fighting cancer, but of course nobody can win all the battles all the time. As we know only too well, it is often the tumor that gains the upper hand, outsmarting the body’s anti-cancer defenses. One of the latest attempts to boost these de...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/reeducating-renegade-p53
August 15, 2016
The protein known as p53 holds the life of the cell in its hand: With the activity of many genes at its command, it can direct DNA repair, or it can order the cell to commit suicide. This protein, one of a handful of so-called “tumor suppressors,” has been dubbed “guardian of the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/staff-scientist-dr-daniela-novick
August 18, 2016
Name: Dr. Daniela Novick Department: Molecular Genetics In the summer of 2015, a three-month-old baby was admitted to a hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with severe inflammation of her colon. The doctors saw that she was suffering from a congenital autoimmune di...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/working-together-personalized-medicine
August 21, 2016
Wanted: Unit Head to work in the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine (G-INCPM). Must have a deep grasp of research in all the life sciences, experience with the most advanced instrumentation and analytical tools, and the ability to translate r...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/staff-scientist-dr-tamar-paz-elizur
August 22, 2016
Name: Dr. Tamar Paz-Elizur Department: Biomolecular Sciences, DNA repair lab Even as she deals on a daily basis with the tiny details of DNA repair – a subject that was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 – Dr. Tamar Paz-Elizur is constantly aware of the beauty in...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/earth-mass-planet-right-next-door
August 24, 2016
An international team announced today that a planet with a mass similar to that of Earth has been observed orbiting the star Proxima Centauri – the closest star to our Sun, just over 4 light years (about 40 trillion km) away. The collaboration of scientists from nine countries,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/staff-scientist-dr-nir-kampf
August 29, 2016
Name: Dr. Nir Kampf Department: Materials and Interfaces, soft matter and surface forces lab On an ancient an Egyptian bas relief, slaves are seen pouring liquid onto the ground in front of large statue they carry. From the looks of it, that liquid is water – a fluid n...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/false-‘body-image’-makes-cells-grow-faster
September 1, 2016
Our reflection in the mirror informs our internal perception of our size – whether we believe ourselves to be tall or short, slim or full-bodied, lanky or chubby – and this perception in turn affects how we behave. The cells in our bodies must assess their size, as well, so that...
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