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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/new-method-analysing-crack-progression
January 30, 2006
Weizmann Institute scientists develop a method for analysing crack progression Could engineers have known ahead of time exactly how much pressure the levees protecting New Orleans could withstand before giving way? Is it possible to predict when and under what conditions m...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bones-hold-key-blood-renewal
June 19, 2006
Though we think of them as solid and permanent, our bones are actually constantly being rebuilt throughout our lives. A team of scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science has now revealed how cells that work at remodeling the bones play a direct part in the ongoing renewal o...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/successful-transplantation-pig-embryos-mice
June 19, 2006
Millions of diabetics face a lifetime of daily injections to replace the insulin their bodies fail to produce, as well as a host of risks that includes blindness, amputation, kidney failure and heart disease. For many, particularly those inflicted with juvenile diabetes, transpla...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/james-heineman-research-award-winner-named
May 18, 2006
Dr. Yitzhak (Tzahi) Pilpel of the Weizmann Institute’s Molecular Genetics Department will be this year’s recipient of the James Heineman Research Award in Biological and Biomedical Research for 2006. This award has been given every two years, since 1996, in memory of Jam...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/and-mountain-moved
May 17, 2006
A Weizmann Institute scientist reveals how a mountain may have moved. The mountains skipped like rams… – Psalm 114 'Moving mountains' has come to mean doing the impossible. Yet at least once in the past, one mountain relocated a fair distance away. This feat took pla...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/weizmann-institute-scientists-discover-how-injured-embryo-can-regenerate-itself-and
June 26, 2008
More than 80 years have passed since the German scientist Hans Spemann conducted his famous experiment that laid the foundations for the field of embryonic development. After dividing a salamander embryo in half, Spemann noticed that one half – specifically, the half that gives r...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/injury-heals
May 17, 2006
Routine uterine biopsies turned up a surprising result that could open up new pathways in fertility research. Louis Pasteur said that 'chance favors the prepared mind.' For Prof. Nava Dekel of the Weizmann Institute’s Biological Regulation Department, some completely unexp...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/joining-forces
December 26, 2006
The 'resistance movement' founded by bacteria to combat antibiotics may be losing ground. By combining key properties of two different types of weapons used by the innate defense systems of organisms, a team of scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science has managed to design...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/how-cancer-cells-survive-chemotherapy-drug
January 28, 2009
What separates the few cancer cells that survive chemotherapy – leaving the door open to recurrence – from those that don’t? Weizmann Institute scientists developed an original method for imaging and analyzing many thousands of living cells to reveal exactly how a chemotherapy dr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/transplant-time
December 26, 2006
Weizmann Institute Scientists demonstrate how tissues transplanted from pig embryos might, in the future, present a solution to genetic diseases In hemophilia, a mutated gene prevents the production of a critical blood-clotting protein. Treatments for hemophilia and other...
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