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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/tiny-nanotube-can
June 30, 2019
One of the world’s smallest solar cells might be a nanotube – not the kind made of carbon, but one composed of an inorganic compound rolled around itself like a hollow cigar. This discovery – the fruit of collaboration between physicists in Japan and Germany and chemists in Israe...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/science-love-story
June 27, 2019
That Israeli quality known as “takhless” – directness – helped a pair of Argentinian postdoctoral fellows come to Israel – without having been there before – and fit right into two of the leading labs in the Weizmann Institute of Science. They even ended up working on related pro...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/spines-prick-memories
July 4, 2019
Spines can be thin or stubby, mushroom-shaped or branched – at least if they are microscopic (a thousandth of a millimeter) spines found on brain cells. These tiny spines crown nerve cell “branches” called dendrites. Research in recent years has shown that dendritic spines change...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/why-hearts-bounce-back
July 9, 2019
Take a heart cell called a cardiomyocyte, put it on a soft gel in a lab dish, and it will beat, beat, beat like a tiny heart. If you take two cardiomyocytes and grow them near one another, they will coordinate their rhythm to beat together. What is it about these cells that drive...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/elastic-waves-last
July 25, 2019
If you take large polymer molecules, add them to a solution and cause them to flow ‒ for example, by tipping their container to create a velocity gradient ‒ something unusual will happen. The polymer molecules will stretch out as they move, and the solution, which may have seemed...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/all-natural-color
July 15, 2019
Like bees to flowers or bears to ripe fruit, we are first attracted to food by its color. That is why everything from soft drinks to cheese contain added color – much of it still artificial despite the known health risks. A new start-up, using technology developed at the Weizmann...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/we-see-lot-clinical-applications
July 11, 2019
Prof Michal Sharon recently talked with The Scientists' Channel about the latest in mass spectromety. See more in this article we recently wrote on her method for turning a weakness into a strength. Prof. Michal Sharon's research is supported by the Benoziyo Fund for the Adva...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/loaded-love-–-and-other-signals
July 29, 2019
Gazing at the face of our newborn or into the eyes of our sweetheart we might feel a sudden rush of joy – thanks to the hormone oxytocin, which has already been locked and loaded into special dispatch stations found on neurons in our brains. Weizmann Institute of Science research...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/gut-microbes-may-affect-course-als
July 22, 2019
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have shown in mice that intestinal microbes, collectively termed the gut microbiome, may affect the course of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. As reported today in Nature, progression of an A...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-route-blocking-children’s-bone-cancer
October 2, 2019
Ewing sarcoma is a bone cancer that appears mainly in teenagers. Due to a single defective gene, once it spreads to distant organs it is hard to treat. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered molecular interactions underlying Ewing sarcomas and proposed...
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