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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/designer-nerves
May 1, 2009
In think tanks around the world, analysts try to identify new developments in science and technology that might spur the next big technology wave. These trend spotters will undoubtedly...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/checking-dosage
May 1, 2009
Three decades of work on Down syndrome is bringing its cause into focus In 1866, British physician John Langdon Down described the disorder now known as Down syndrome. Despite wide-scale prenatal testing, about 1 in 800 babies in the Western world...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/passport-please
May 1, 2009
Border controls are the way a country regulates who and what crosses into its territory. Living cells also have "border controls" – membranes that surround the whole cell or especially sensitive or important parts of it....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/optimum-performance
May 1, 2009
To increase profits, one should lower costs, raise prices and increase efficiency. Simple enough advice; but ask any business manager to what extent the cost of employee bonuses is offset by greater e...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/fishing-brain-cells
May 1, 2009
How do the cells in a developing brain know what they'll be when they grow up? How does a tiny, shapeless mass of embryonic cells turn into a human brain? To watch a brain develop in a mammalian embryo, a scientist would have to be able to see through the mother's...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/business-side-science
May 1, 2010
At 43, Dr. Anat Cohen-Dayag is president and CEO of Compugen Ltd., a leading drug and diagnostic product candidate-discovery company. Cohen-Dayag is responsible for the company’s strategic management and business policies, research and development, and financing ac...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cancer-matters
May 1, 2009
Israel Prize winner Prof. Moshe Oren: "We won't allow the tumor to escape the therapy" Cocktails. That's the key word in the future fight against cancer, says Prof. Moshe Oren of the Weizmann Institute's Molecular Cell Biology Department, a pioneer of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/order-through-chaos
October 1, 2008
Thanks to the rising trend toward miniaturization, carbon nanotubes – being about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair and possessing unique mechanical, electronic, optical and thermal properties – have become the ideal candidates for use as building blocks for nanoelectr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/turning-bone
May 1, 2009
In the search for new and better materials, many a scientist has turned to the study of living organisms. Generally these studies have focused on such tissues as bone or shell – complex mixtures of minerals, proteins and suga...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/watch-flying-elephants
October 1, 2008
Dumbo may have been ridiculed by his fellow elephants, but his flying skills have been evoked to describe a revolutionary advance in protein science. John F...
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