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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/tiny-molecule-could-help-diagnose-and-treat-mental-disorders
June 19, 2014
According to the World Health Organization, such mood disorders as depression affect some 10% of the world’s population and are associated with a heavy burden of disease. That is why numerous scientists around the world have invested a great deal of effort in understanding t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/world’s-first-photonic-router
July 14, 2014
Weizmann Institute scientists have demonstrated for the first time a photonic router – a quantum device based on a single atom that enables routing of single photons by single photons. This achievement, as reported in Science...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/real-price-steak
July 21, 2014
We are told that eating beef is bad for the environment, but do we know its real cost? Are the other animal or animal-derived foods better or worse? New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science, conducted in collaboration with scientists in the US, compared the enviro...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/pheromones-regulate-aggression-non-mother-female-mice-toward-pups-wild-derived-mice
August 5, 2014
Laboratory mice are one of the most common animal models used in biological and medical research. Thousands of laboratory mouse strains are produced by artificial selection – the process by which humans breed animals over dozens of generations for particular traits. This has...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/measuring-smallest-magnets
July 28, 2014
Imagine trying to measure a tennis ball that bounces wildly, every time to a distance a million times its own size. The bouncing obviously creates enormous “background noise” that interferes with the measurement. But if you attach the ball directly to a measuring device, so they...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/mutations-venus-mutations-mars
July 28, 2014
Some 15% of adults suffer from fertility problems, many of these due to genetic factors. This is something of a paradox: We might expect such genes, which reduce an individual’s ability to reproduce, to disappear from the population. Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/all-you-can-eat-end-universe
August 11, 2014
At the ends of the Universe there are black holes with masses equaling billions of our sun. These giant bodies – quasars – feed on interstellar gas, swallowing large quantities of it non-stop. Thus they reveal their existence: The light that is emitted by the gas as it is su...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/nanocubes-get-twist
August 11, 2014
Nanocubes are anything but child’s play. Weizmann Institute scientists have used them to create surprisingly yarn-like strands: They showed that given the right conditions, cube-shaped nanoparticles are able to align into winding helical structures. Their...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/not-only-dna’s-hands
August 11, 2014
Every day trillions of blood cells are being formed in our body: from the oxygen-carrying red blood cells to the many types of white blood cells that fight pathogens and infection. All of these highly specialized cells originate from blood stem cells – unique cells that have...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/artificial-cells-act-real-thing
August 18, 2014
Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery, but mimicking the intricate networks and dynamic interactions that are inherent to living cells is difficult to achieve outside the cell. Now, as published in Science, Weizmann Institute scientists have created an art...
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