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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/gut-bacteria-artificial-sweeteners-and-glucose-intolerance
September 17, 2014
Artificial sweeteners, promoted as aids to weight loss and diabetes prevention, could actually hasten the development of glucose intolerance and metabolic disease; and they do it in a surprising way: by changing the composition and function of the gut microbiota – the substa...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/scientists-identify-signature-aging-brain
September 29, 2014
How the brain ages is still largely an open question – in part because this organ is mostly insulated from direct contact with other systems in the body, including the blood and immune systems. In research that was recently published in Science, Weizmann Ins...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/untangling-maze
September 29, 2014
The fetus in the womb totally depends on the blood bond with the mother. Spotting irregularities in the flow across the placenta could therefore be crucial for detecting fetal distress, but currently, no reliable method is available for monitoring the flow or detecting other sign...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/waves-future
September 29, 2014
In nature, waves such as those in the ocean begin as local oscillations in the water that spread out, ripple fashion, from their point of origin. But fans of the television series Star Trek will recall a different sort of wave pattern: the tractor beam. Tractor beam technology, i...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/tumors-might-grow-faster-night
October 6, 2014
They emerge at night, while we sleep unaware, growing and spreading out as quickly as they can. And they are deadly. In a surprise finding that was recently published in Nature Communications, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers showed that nighttime is the r...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/ocean’s-living-carbon-pumps
October 21, 2014
When we talk about global carbon fixation –"pumping" carbon out of the atmosphere and fixing it into organic molecules by photosynthesis – proper measurement is key to understanding this process. By some estimates, almost half of the world’s organic carbon is fixed by marine orga...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/reading-biological-clock-dark
October 21, 2014
Our species’ waking and sleeping cycles – shaped in millions of years of evolution – have been turned upside down within a single century with the advent of electric lighting and airplanes. As a result, millions of people regularly disrupt their biological clocks – for example, s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciencesmade-institute/yeda-xl-protein-gmbh-agreement
October 21, 2014
YEDA Research and Development Company Ltd., the technology transfer arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and XL-protein GmbH, Germany, a privately owned biopharmaceutical company, have signed a business collaboration agreement to commercialize a PASylated interf...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-haim-garty-vice-president-weizmann-institute-1948-2014
November 30, 2014
Prof. Haim Garty loved to tell people that he grew up in the “backyard of the Weizmann Institute of Science.” Garty was born in Bulgaria in 1948 and came with his family to Israel in 1950, settling in Rehovot. So his childhood memories were colored by the Inst...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/behavioral-changes-seen-after-sleep-learning
November 12, 2014
New Weizmann Institute research may bring the idea of sleep learning one step closer to reality. The research, which appeared today in The Journal of Neuroscience, suggests that certain kinds of conditioning applied during sleep could induce us to change our behavior. The researc...
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