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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/gene-analysis-adds-layers-understanding-how-our-livers-function
February 13, 2017
If you get up in the morning feeling energetic and clearheaded, you can thank your liver for manufacturing glucose before breakfast time. Among a host of other vital functions, it clears our body of toxins and produces most of the carrier proteins in our blood. In a study reporte...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/controlling-electron-spin-efficient-water-splitting
February 13, 2017
Water is made of oxygen and hydrogen, and splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen for fuel is a promising path for alternative energy. One of the main obstacles to making hydrogen production a reality is that current methods of water splitting result in hydrogen peroxi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/cold-excited-molecules-change-shape
February 16, 2017
The motion of an object after it is hit depends to a very large extent on its shape: A round ball will spin very differently from an elongated baton. Spinning molecules also come in different shapes (though they are never truly round). Prof. Edvardas Narevicius and his group in t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/high-cholesterol-good-news-–-plants
February 20, 2017
People might eat greens to lower their cholesterol levels, but contrary to common belief, most plants are not cholesterol-free. As reported recently in Nature Plants, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now deciphered the biochemical reactions responsible for th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/getting-genetic-basis-social-behavior-and-anxiety
February 21, 2017
Small aquarium fish that fail to swim toward schools of fish on the side of their tanks are yielding clues to human conduct. New research in the lab of Prof. Gil Levkowitz of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Molecular Cell Biology Department follows the effects of a singl...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-campus/dr-bruce-lefker-bridging-gap-between-basic-science-and-drug-discovery
February 23, 2017
Dr. Bruce Lefker of Pfizer Inc, Boston, USA, is a visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science working in the Drug Discovery Unit at the Nancy & Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine (G-INCPM). Dr. Lefker has been working as a medicinal ch...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/survival-thriftiest-cost-cutting-strategies-cell
March 6, 2017
Paying less and getting more is not just a goal of wise consumers. Living cells, too, strive to make the most of their resources. This is particularly true when it comes to the most expensive cellular process in terms of energy expenditure: gene expression, or the translation of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/test-artificial-odors
March 6, 2017
Say someone claims to have developed a system to “capture” any odor in the form of a digital code – one that could be transmitted online or uploaded to the Internet and faithfully reproduced at the receiving end. How could we be sure that the system is valid? in other words: How...
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