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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/intersections-science-contemporary-art
September 9, 2012
September 22 – December 7, 2012 David Lopatie Conference Centre, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Entry free – by appointment Tomas Saraceno, Spencer Finch, Conrad Shawcross, Mat Collishaw, Michal Rovner, Ori Gersht, Troika, Karen Russo and other artists will display...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/weizmann-institute’s-mathematical-model-may-lead-safer-chemotherapy
September 12, 2012
Cancer chemotherapy can be a life-saver, but it is fraught with severe side effects, among them an increased risk of infection. Until now, the major criterion for assessing this risk has been the blood cell count: if the number of white blood cells falls below a critical threshol...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/uncovering-genome’s-regulatory-code
September 9, 2012
Since the sequencing of the human genome in 2001, all our genes – around 20,000 in total – have been identified. But much is still unknown – for instance where and when each is active. Next to each gene sits a short DNA segment, and the activity of this regulatory segment de...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/weizmann-institute-scientists-observe-quantum-effects-cold-chemistry
October 12, 2012
At very low temperatures, close to absolute zero, chemical reactions may proceed at a much higher rate than classical chemistry says they should – because in this extreme chill, quantum effects enter the picture. A Weizmann Institute team has now confirmed this experime...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/stem-cell-bodyguards
October 22, 2012
Hiding deep inside the bone marrow are special cells. They wait patiently for the hour of need, at which point these blood-forming stem cells can proliferate and differentiate into billions of mature blood immune cells to help the body cope with infection, for example, or ex...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/rejecting-arsenate
October 22, 2012
Not long ago, some unassuming bacteria found themselves at the center of a scientific controversy: A group claimed that these microorganisms, which live in an environment that is rich in the arsenic-based compound arsenate, could take up that arsenate and use it – instead of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/immune-cells-make-flexible-choices
October 22, 2012
Our immune system must be tremendously complex to respond to the unending assault of viruses, bacteria and cancerous cells. One of the mechanisms used by the immune system to cope with the huge variety of possible threats is to randomly combine DNA segments for the productio...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/new-grant-fuel-solar-energy-research
October 24, 2012
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced a gift of $15 million over three years to fund joint research in solar energy and biofuels between the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Helmsley program, wh...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/learning-new-sense
November 5, 2012
Rats use a sense that humans don’t: whisking. They move their facial whiskers back and forth about eight times a second to locate objects in their environment. Could humans acquire this sense? And if they can, what could understanding the process of adapting to new sensory input...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/smell-white
November 22, 2012
You can see the color white; you can hear white noise. Now, Weizmann Institute researchers show that you can also smell a white odor. Their research findings appear online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The white we see is act...
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