https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/conferences/green-approach-may-significantly-improve-cancer-therapy
February 3, 1998
REHOVOT, Israel - February 3, 1998 - A promising cancer therapy which destroys tumors by exposing them to light may be significantly improved thanks to new materials developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Institute scientists reported on the new development at the C...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/technology/sales-products-emanating-weizmann-institute-research-600-million-1997
March 19, 1998
REHOVOT, Israel - March 19, 1998 - Approximately $600 million worth of products emanating from research at the Weizmann Institute of Science were sold by Israeli and non-Israeli companies in 1997. Israeli companies were responsible for half of these sales, mainly for export. Thes...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/key-step-activating-immune-system-discovered
February 6, 1997
REHOVOT, Israel - February 6, 1997 - A gene that plays a key role in activating the immune system -- and perhaps also in spurring on the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS -- has been discovered and cloned by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Their find...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/1997-teva-founders-prize-weizmann-institutes-prof-david-wallach
March 22, 1998
REHOVOT, Israel - March 22, 1998 - Prof. David Wallach of the Weizmann Institute of Science's Biological Chemistry Department has been awarded the 1997 Teva Founders Prize. Wallach was honored for his pioneering research on the transmission of signals in cells. H...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/watery-birth-stars
February 1, 1997
Logically, stars should not exist. They are born when clouds of interstellar gas collapse inwardly under their own weight, growing denser and hotter until nuclear fusion causes them to emit energy in the form of light. However, since heat forces matter to expand, this hot contrac...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/antibodies-know-right-left
May 1, 1998
Knowing right from left is essential in many areas of life - even on the molecular level. Prof. Meir Wilchek of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry Department, working with an international team of researchers, has now discovered that this ability is particularly pr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/pacman-brain-protein-chews-vital-memory-chemical
February 1, 1997
What does the human brain have in common with a popular video game and a carnivorous flower? At least one thing, it turns out. A team from Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science and France's Pasteur Institute found that proteins called glutamate receptors, which enable brain cell...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/mounting-attack-lupus
June 1, 1997
Treatment options for systemic lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system goes awry and attacks healthy tissues, may be expanded thanks to research conducted by Prof. Edna Mozes and colleagues of the Weizmann Institute's Immunology Department....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/sudden-climate-warming-took-place-africa-2000-years-ago-weizmann-institute-study
August 14, 1998
REHOVOT, Israel - August 14, 1998 -A sudden warming of climate lasting several centuries took place in equatorial Africa some 2,000 years ago, according to a new study reported by a Weizmann Institute-led team in the August 14 issue of Science. The scientists performed an is...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/bureau-missing-masses
June 1, 1997
One of the most intriguing mysteries of astrophysics is the so-called "missing mass" problem: the mass of heavenly bodies as estimated on the basis of how much light they emit is vastly smaller than their mass as calculated through Newton's laws of gravity and motio...