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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-made-institute/double-love
May 1, 2009
Dr. Daniela Amann-Zalcenstein began life in Germany in 1974. After receiving her master's degree in biotechnology in 1998, she worked as an engineer for Sequenom – a German company specializing in state-of-the-art genetic analysis technology. When...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/desert-life
May 1, 2009
"Pioneering," "breakthrough," "laying the foundations" – such terms are often used to describe scientific research. But in the case of Prof. Yair Zarmi, the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/keeping-memories-alive
October 1, 2007
Are our memories recorded in a one-time physical change, like writing permanently on a clay tablet? Prof. Yadin Dudai, Head of the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department, and his colleagues recently discovered that the process of storing long-term memories is highly dyn...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/opening-window
October 1, 2006
Diabetics, particularly those afflicted with Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes, face a lifetime of daily injections to replace the insulin their bodies fail to produce, as well as a host of risks, including blindness, amputation, kidney failure and heart disease. New treatme...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/two-way-stretch
October 1, 2007
Biomaterials combine living cells with an artificial gel-like medium. Such materials are being explored for use, among other things, in synthetic replacement tissues and organs. But some traits of biomaterials have been puzzling scientists for many years. Prof. Samuel S...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/help-way
October 1, 2007
In infection, the body calls out the "paramedics" – the white blood cells, or leukocytes – to come to the rescue. Chemical substances called chemokines put through the emergency call and direct leukocytes to the right location. Leukocytes m...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/zoning-code
October 1, 2006
The most familiar image of DNA, the basic material of heredity, is that of two long strands of genetic “letters” strung together and twisted around each other in the famous double helix. But inside the cell nucleus, this double strand, which reaches over a m...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/two-arms-are-better-one
October 1, 2007
When cancer metastasizes, the tumor cells begin to migrate through the bloodstream and establish secondary growth in other organs. Metastasis is the main cause of cancer death, and understanding the mechanisms that make cells...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/step-step
October 1, 2007
Enzymes are shape-shifters – their intricate molecular structures take on a variety of different arrangements as they go about their work. The ability to trace in real time the dyna...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/eaten-inside
October 1, 2006
In an emotionally difficult situation, it’s easy to feel as though we are “eating ourselves up from the inside.” In humans, this is no more than a psychological feeling, but for cells in our body, getting eaten...
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