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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/stem-cell-reprogramming-made-easier
September 17, 2013
Embryonic stem cells have the enormous potential to treat and cure many medical problems. That is why the discovery that induced embryonic-like stem cells can be created from skin cells was rewarded with a Nobel Prize in 2012. But the process has remained frustratingly slow and i...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/leukemia-cells-are-addicted-healthy-gene
September 29, 2013
What keeps leukemia cells alive almost forever, able to continue dividing endlessly and aggressively? New research at the Weizmann Institute suggests that, in around a quarter of all leukemias, the cancer cells rely on an internal “balance of terror” to keep going. When one versi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-stem-cells-go-back-further
October 31, 2013
One of the obstacles to employing human embryonic stem cells for medical use lies in their very promise: They are born to rapidly differentiate into other cell types. Until now, scientists have not been able to efficiently keep embryonic stem cells in their pristine stem state. T...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/weizmann-institute-science-receives-120-million-dollars-establish-nancy-and-stephen
November 11, 2013
The Weizmann Institute of Science is establishing, on its campus, the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine. This facility will serve Israel’s entire life sciences and biomedical research community, including academic scientists, MDs working in...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/super-squid
November 25, 2013
Weizmann Institute scientists have taken a quantum leap toward understanding the exciting phenomenon of superconductivity: They have created the world’s smallest SQUID – a device used to measure magnetic fields – which has broken the world record of sensitivity and resolution of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/not-so-dumb
November 25, 2013
Mysterious brain cells called microglia are starting to reveal their secrets thanks to research conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Until recently, most of the glory in brain research went to neurons. For more than a century, these electrically excitable cel...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/chromosomes-show-their-shapes
November 25, 2013
Chromosomes – the 46 tightly-wrapped packages of genetic material in our cells – are iconically depicted as X-shaped formations. However, those neat X’s only appear when a cell is about to divide and the entire contents of its genome duplicated. Until now researchers have not bee...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-hope-gaucher-patients
January 20, 2014
What causes brain damage and inflammation in severe cases of Gaucher disease? Little is known about the events that lead to brain pathology in some forms of the disease, and there is currently no treatment available – a bleak outlook for sufferers and their families. Now, s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/300000-year-old-hearth-found
January 27, 2014
Humans, by most estimates, discovered fire over a million years ago. But when did they really begin to control fire and use it for their daily needs? That question – one which is central to the subject of the rise of human culture – is still hotly debated. A team of Israeli scien...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/time-essence
February 5, 2014
New findings in mice suggest that merely changing meal times could have a significant effect on the levels of triglycerides in the liver. The results of this Weizmann Institute of Science study, recently published in Cell Metabolism, not only have important implications for the p...
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