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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/institute-researcher-sea
September 5, 2016
On a recent spring day, the research vessel Tara raised anchor. Its sails caught the wind and it sailed away from its home port in France. Among the 20 scientists on board was Dr. Jorge Michel Flores, a postdoctoral researcher in two labs at the Weizmann Institute of Sci...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/staff-scientists-dana-and-yossie-hollander-center-structural-proteomics
September 8, 2016
Names (l-r): Dr. Tamar Unger, DNA Manipulation and Protein Expression Units Dr. Orly Dym Crystallization, Structure Determination and Analysis Unit Dr. Shira Albeck, Protein Purification and Analysis Unit Dr. Yoav Peleg, DNA Manipulation and Protein Expression Unit...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/upper-limit
September 12, 2016
Molecular junctions made of single molecules strung between two electric wires are already part of the world of nano- and even smaller electronics. But how well can a molecule conduct electricity? Recent research led by Dr. Tamar Yelin in the group of Dr. Oren Tal in the Chemica...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/staff-scientist-dr-ziv-porat
September 15, 2016
Name: Dr. Ziv Porat Department: Life Science Core Facilities, Flow Cytometry Unit The Weizmann Institute of Science’s Flow Cytometry Unit, says Dr. Ziv Porat, is busy day and night, weekends and holidays. Porat, in addition to overseeing the use of the flow cytometers, is i...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/co-chip-reveals-genomic-mixed-messages
September 19, 2016
Consider the growing embryo: All its cells share the same genes, but they have entirely different fates, ultimately specializing to make up the brain, liver, kidneys or other body organs. It’s as if all the cells contain the same “book” – that is, the genome – but each cell “read...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/staff-scientist-dr-rivka-adar
September 22, 2016
Name: Dr. Rivka Adar Department: Biomolecular Sciences; Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Lab work can be a drag. “Sometimes we need to repeat an experiment over and over, or to try many different approaches until we find what works,” says Dr. Rivka Adar. “If I’m wor...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/piecing-together-propeller-protein
September 26, 2016
A protein is a highly complex, specialized structure. Hundreds of amino acids – the biochemical building blocks of proteins – must be lined up in the correct sequence and folded into a well-defined shape for the protein to function. The question is: How did such complicated forms...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/staff-scientist-dr-rachel-sarig
September 28, 2016
Name: Dr. Rachel Sarig Department: Molecular Cell Biology Why is it that animals such as salamanders can regrow whole new organs – a tail for example – while we humans have limited damage-repair skills? Staff Scientist Dr. Rachel Sarig, who works with Prof. Eldad Tzaho...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/holograms-get-blues
October 6, 2016
Holograms – 3-D images – are widely used these days in entertainment and as anti-counterfeiting devices on everything from credit cards and bills to toothpaste packaging. A new type of hologram produced in Weizmann Institute of Science labs would be nearly impossible to counterfe...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/staff-scientist-dr-sidney-cohen
October 10, 2016
Name: Dr. Sidney Cohen Department: Chemical Research Support, Surface Analysis Unit “In my early years as a chemistry student,” says Dr. Sidney Cohen of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Faculty of Chemistry, “the existence of atoms and molecules was taken on faith:...
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