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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/life’s-mysteries-converge-droplet
December 6, 2022
Two biological mysteries, set billions of years apart, have come together in a recent research project at the Weizmann Institute of Science. One has to do with the origin of life, or more precisely, the origin of proteins – those biological molecules essential for life. How di...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/electrons-run
December 23, 2022
Will an electron escaping a molecule through a quantum tunnel behave differently depending on the left- or right-handedness of the molecule? Chemists have borrowed the phrases “left-handed” and “right-handed” from anatomy to describe molecules that are characterized by a parti...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/seeing-things-differently-secret-life-our-eyes
December 26, 2022
“Seeing eye to eye” is an expression of harmony, but do different people literally see the same thing when they view the same external world? “The short answer is – no,” says Dr. Liron Gruber. “Even the same person sees the same thing differently each time they look at it,” adds...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/building-better-enzymes-–-breaking-them-down
January 12, 2023
Enzymes have the potential to transform the chemical industry by providing green alternatives to a slew of processes. These proteins act as biological catalysts, and with the help of molecular engineering, they can make naturally occurring reactions shift into turbo mode. Tailor-...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/born-ready-pressure
January 18, 2023
Why do some combat soldiers exhibit posttraumatic stress disorder, whereas their comrades faced with the same situations do not? Why do some victims of violence remain scarred for life, when others emerge from similar experiences relatively unscathed? Such frequently observed...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/look-bright-side-earth
January 23, 2023
When looking at the Earth from space, its hemispheres – northern and southern – appear equally bright. This is particularly unexpected because the Southern Hemisphere is mostly covered with dark oceans, whereas the Northern Hemisphere has a vast land area that is much brighter th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/protein-wears-prada
January 26, 2023
Just as wearing a new outfit can cause us to assume a different persona, so a chemical tag “worn” by a protein can make that molecule unrecognizable. An entire wardrobe of tags – called protein modifications, because they modify the protein’s original sequence – helps the thousan...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/answering-question-has-bugged-ecologists-decades
February 3, 2023
Arthropods crawl and buzz around us in the wild and on farmlands, on the street and at home, under our floors and in our plumbing systems, even in our food and on our bodies. But while we often are inconvenienced by this group of invertebrates – which comprises more than a millio...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/thugs-cellular-neighborhood
February 8, 2023
Bullying, unfortunately, can be contagious. This applies not only at school or on the playground but also in the cellular neighborhood. That’s why in a new study, a team of researchers headed by Dr. Ruth Scherz-Shouval of the Weizmann Institute of Science focused not only on the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-shalev-itzkovitz-0
February 12, 2023
Prof. Shalev Itzkovitz was appointed Head of The Department of Molecular Cell Biology...
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