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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/fat-connection
June 21, 2005
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and in Sweden discover how excess body fat can lead to the onset of diabetes One out of 12 people in the western world suffers from type 2 (adult onset) diabetes. Worldwide, 150 million people are diabetic and their numbers a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/birth-enzyme
March 24, 2008
Scientists succeed in designing artificial enzymes that also undergo 'evolution in a test tube' Mankind triumphed in a recent 'competition' against nature when scientists succeeded in creating a new type of enzyme for a reaction for which no naturally occurring enzyme...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/best-young-computer-professional-honored-grace-murray-hopper-award
March 15, 2006
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE PROFESSOR WINS ACM AWARD FOR COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY ACM: The Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession Contact: Virginia Gold 212-626-0505 vgold@acm.org New York, March 15, 2006 – T...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/european-commission-fund-simap-consortium
March 7, 2006
Compugen Leads Consortium to Model Cancer Related Kinase Pathway Tel Aviv, Israel - March 7, 2006 - Compugen Ltd. (Nasdaq:CGEN) announced today that it is leading a consortium for the development of a platform to simulate the MAP-kinase pathway, a signaling pathway related t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/wowing-crowds
January 30, 2006
With a new method scientists can identify novel protein molecules in days rather than months A team of scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a method that could speed up the process of identifying novel protein...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/invasion-strategy-worlds-largest-virus
May 29, 2008
Weizmann Institute scientists reveal the invasion strategy of the world’s largest virus A Weizmann Institute study provides important new insights into the process of viral infection. The study, reported in the on-line journal PLoS Biology, reveals certain mechanisms...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/weizmann-institute-scientists-show-quantum-systems-could-flout-physics-law
June 2, 2008
Scientists in the Weizmann Institute’s Faculty of Chemistry, together with colleagues in Germany, have made a startling prediction: Simply 'taking the temperature' of certain quantum systems at frequent intervals might cause them to disobey a hard and fast rule of thermodyna...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/weizmann-institute-scientists-find-new-quasiparticles
June 2, 2008
Weizmann Institute physicists have demonstrated, for the first time, the existence of 'quasiparticles' with one quarter the charge of an electron. This finding could be a first step toward creating exotic types of quantum computers that might be powerful, yet highly stable....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-approach-treating-autoimmune-disease
June 2, 2008
In autoimmune diseases, the immune system turns against the body’s own tissues and organs, wreaking havoc and destruction for no apparent reason. Partly because the origins of these diseases are so obscure, no effective treatment exists, and the suffering they inflict is enormous...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/triple-code
January 30, 2006
Three different types of code come into play when rats sense with their whiskers Is there a universal neural code, similar to the genetic code, in which the complexity of sense and experience can be reduced to a few simple rules? According to Prof. Ehud Ahissar of the Weiz...
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