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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/viruses-overheard-talking-one-another
January 18, 2017
Viruses may be stealthy invaders, but a study at the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals a new, chatty side of some: For the first time, viruses have been found communicating with one another. This communication – short “posts” left for kin and descendants – helps the viru...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/outward-bound-proteins-have-third-way
January 22, 2017
The cells in our bodies must constantly communicate with one another. For many, it is a matter of survival; for others, it is the way they keep our bodies healthy and functioning efficiently. Communications are carried out by proteins – both the numerous proteins that are situate...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/programmed-proteins-might-help-prevent-malaria
January 26, 2017
Despite decades of malaria research, the disease still afflicts hundreds of millions and kills around half a million people each year – most of them children in tropical regions. Part of the problem is that the malaria parasite is a shape-shifter, making it hard to target. But an...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/uncovering-secrets-white-cell-power
January 26, 2017
One of the mysteries of the living body is the movement of cells – not just in the blood, but through cellular and other barriers. Such movement takes place continually, in both healthy activity and disease. New research in the Weizmann Institute of Science has shed light on the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/rusty-green-early-ocean
January 26, 2017
Though they may seem rock solid, the ancient sedimentary rocks called iron formations – the world’s chief economic source of iron ore – were once dissolved in seawater. How did that iron go from a dissolved state to banded iron formations? Dr. Itay Halevy and his group in the Wei...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/staff-scientist-dr-miriam-eisenstein
January 30, 2017
Name: Dr. Miriam Eisenstein Department: Chemical Research Support “The modeling of molecules on the computer,” says Dr. Miriam Eisenstein, Head of the Macromolecular Modeling Unit of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Chemical Research Support Department, “is sometimes th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/losing-nerve-development-sheds-light-later-degenerative-disease
February 2, 2017
We all, at times, lose our nerve. But certain nerve losses that are crucial during early nervous system development may later play a role in such diseases as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or peripheral neuropathy. New research in the Weizmann Institute of Science is uncover...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/dr-silvio-pitlik-preserving-our-internal-ecosystems
February 5, 2017
Long before Weizmann Institute scientists and others discovered the beneficial side of our internal bacteria – our microbiome – Dr. Silvio Pitlik had his misgivings about administering large quantities of anti-bacterial drugs. Pitlik was a doctor in the internal medicine departme...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/weizmann-theater-ensemble-presents
February 9, 2017
The Weizmann Institute of Science Theater Ensemble presented the play Krum by Hanoch Levin. The play’s protagonist, Krum, a 38-year-old Israeli bachelor, has returned to the neighborhood where he grew up after trying his luck abroad. Still plagued by dreams of breaking out of the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/keeping-pressure
February 13, 2017
In addition to the classic stress response in our bodies – an acute reaction that gradually abates when the threat passes – our bodies appear to have a separate mechanism that deals only with chronic stress. These Weizmann Institute of Science findings, which recently appeared in...
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