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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/professor-ephraim-katzir-1916-2009
May 31, 2009
The Weizmann Institute mourns the passing of Professor Ephraim Katzir, fourth President of the State of Israel, a leader among scientists in Israel and a founder of the Weizmann Institute Prof. Katzir passed away yesterday, Saturday, May 30, 2009, at his home in the Weizm...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/ring-around-cell
March 26, 2007
Weizmann Institute scientists reveal how bone-dissolving cells seal off their work area Breaking down bone is a tough job. Yet, our bones undergo remodeling every day of our lives, as old material is cleared away so that new bone can form. In diseases such as osteoporos...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bacteria-can-plan-ahead
June 17, 2009
Bacteria can anticipate a future event and prepare for it, according to new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In a paper that appeared today in Nature, Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel, doctoral student Amir Mitchell and research associate Dr. Orna Dahan of the Institut...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/genes-slows-cell-division
February 25, 2007
Weizmann Institute Scientists Discover: A Group of Genes that Slows Cell Division and Prevents Cancer Cancer cells differ from normal cells, among other things, in the way they divide. When a normal cell complies with a signal telling it to divide, it also begins to activa...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/control-mechanism-metastasis
August 8, 2007
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE SCIENTISTS DISCOVER: A CONTROL MECHANISM FOR METASTASIS Metastasis – when cancer cells dissociate from the original tumor and migrate via the blood stream to colonize distant organs – is the main cause of cancer death. A team of scientists at the Weizman...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/node/1361
July 6, 2009
Baroness de Rothschild visited the Institute, where she met with science teachers participating in a unique science education program Baroness Ariane de Rothschild was at the Weizmann Institute, yesterday, to get a first-hand report on a one-of-a-kind program for pr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/live-broadcasts
July 26, 2007
To help molecular biologists in the difficult task of keeping abreast of current events in the world of cells and organisms, they employ reporter genes to 'broadcast' specific happenings. For example, if a scientist is interested in the whereabouts and activities of a certain gen...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/dna-computation-gets-logical-weizmann-institute-science
August 3, 2009
Biomolecular computers, made of DNA and other biological molecules, only exist today in a few specialized labs, remote from the regular computer user. Nonetheless, Tom Ran and Shai Kaplan, research students in the lab of Prof. Ehud Shapiro of the Weizmann Institute’s Biological C...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/when-target-right
July 26, 2007
Unlike man-made computer components that are meticulously ordered on a chip, the molecules that make up biological 'computers' are diffuse within the cell. All organisms perform intricate molecular computations to survive. Unlike man-made computer components that are me...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/opposites-interfere
July 26, 2007
In a classic physics experiment, photons (light particles), electrons, or any other quantum particles are fired, one at a time, at a sheet with two slits cut in it that sits in front of a recording plate. For photons, a photographic plate reveals an oscillating pattern (bands of...
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