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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/technologyscience-culture/weizmann-institute-science-launches-apps-ipad-and-android-tablet-devices
June 26, 2012
The Weizmann Institute of Science has announced the launch of two new applications for iPad and Android tablet devices – one for its quarterly Hebrew magazine Hamachon, and another for its online Interface magazine (English). These are among the very first digital magazines...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/losing-money-emotions-and-evolution
June 12, 2012
Financial loss can lead to irrational behavior. Now, research by Weizmann Institute scientists reveals that the effects of loss go even deeper: Loss can compromise our early perception and interfere with our grasp of the true situation. The findings, which rec...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/kill-messenger
June 12, 2012
What’s good news in one setting might spell disaster in another. In cancer for instance, when a certain cell is commanded to grow and divide without restraint, it’s a welcome message for the cell itself but a tragedy for the person who harbors this cell in his or her body. W...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/living-microprocessor-tunes-feedback
June 12, 2012
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) – tiny strands of non-protein-coding RNAs – start off as long strands of precursor miRNAs. These long strands get chopped up by a special kind of machinery, the “Microprocessor” complex, to transform them into their shorter functional form. The resulting m...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/new-particle-has-been-discovered-–-chances-are-it-higgs-boson
July 3, 2012
The Higgs boson is the final building block that has been missing from the “Standard Model,” which describes the structure of matter in the universe. The Higgs boson combines two forces of nature and shows that they are, in fact, different aspects of a more fundamental force...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/technology/‘3i’-develop-microscopes-future-based-weizmann-institute-inventions
July 25, 2012
Yeda, the technology transfer arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, has signed a license agreement with ’3i.’ Other microscopy systems based on Weizmann research are being sold by ‘Idea Bio-Medical’ The imaging potential of cutting-edge...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/fools’-gold-found-regulate-oxygen
July 23, 2012
As sulfur cycles through Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land, it undergoes chemical changes that are often coupled to changes in other such elements as carbon and oxygen. Although this affects the concentration of free oxygen, sulfur has traditionally been portrayed as a sec...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/judging-dna-its-cover
July 23, 2012
Stem cells hold great promise for the medicine of the future, but they can also be a cause of disease. When these self-renewing, unspecialized cells fail to differentiate into diverse cell types, they can start dividing uncontrollably, leading to cancer. Already several deca...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/locally-produced-proteins
July 26, 2012
Several years ago, Prof. Michael Fainzilber and his group in the Biological Chemistry Department made a surprising discovery: Proteins thought to exist only near the cell nucleus could also be found in the far-off regions of the body’s longest cells – peripheral nerve cells...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/lesson-sleep-learning
August 26, 2012
Is sleep learning possible? A new Weizmann Institute study appearing today in Nature Neuroscience online has found that if certain odors are presented after tones during sleep, people will start sniffing when they hear the tones alone – even when no odor is present – both du...
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