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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/surfin-dna
May 1, 2009
Any good detective knows that to solve a mystery, the evidence left at the scene is never sufficient; one needs to piece together events that took place prior to the crime. Actions that may at first appear to be irre...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/supernannies
May 1, 2009
By the time a fertilized egg completes the trip from ovaries to uterus, it has already been transformed into a tiny ball of cells called a blastocyst. Its next step is fraught with risks: Around half o...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/thinking-small
May 1, 2009
Tomorrow's computer might be a quantum one based on the physics of particles smaller than atoms. No one is quite sure what a quantum computer should look like, or even whether it's possible to build a functional one; but...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/down-line
October 1, 2008
A cell containing a certain mutation divides, and its daughter cells divide again. At some point down the line, one of the cell’s progeny acquires further mutations and begins to divide more rapidly. Later...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/nanotube-news
May 1, 2009
Picture-Perfect Nanotubes A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. This saying is true for materials as well; it is the defects that often ultimately determine a material's strength. Nanotubes may b...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science-/trees-knowledge
May 1, 2009
Are some contemporary Jewish men descended from the biblical Aaron? Are all cancer metastases derived from the same primary tumor? These are the kinds of questions addressed by Prof. Karl Skorecki, a Rambam Medical Center physician who recently spent his s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people--science-culture/more-questions-answers
May 1, 2009
At the beginning of 2006, Dr. Jun (Yona) Miyamoto immigrated to Israel with his aging cat, Sean. After spending several months learning Hebrew in Jerusalem,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/drug-pioneers
May 1, 2009
Prof. Ruth Arnon remembers the day she decided to join the Weizmann Institute. She was a young chemistry student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, then spread out in various locations around the city....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/running-interference
October 1, 2008
Tiny RNA molecules have a big impact RNA – regarded as a humble carrier of messages and fetcher of protein building information – has been living in DNA’s shadow for ages. The twinned spiral strands of DNA, which cont...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/other-half
October 1, 2008
More than 80 years ago, the German scientist Hans Spemann conducted a famous experiment that laid the foundations for the field of embryonic development – research that would later earn him a Nobel Pr...
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