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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/ribosomal-revelations
May 1, 2000
Leaning back in an office busy with mysterious images of rotating, luminescent molecules suspended in a jet-black vacuum, she laughingly recounts that her colleagues have at times called her a dreamer. Her goal, "to try to understand the principles of life from the inside by unra...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/nanotubes-stay-step
May 1, 2005
Sometimes a rough start makes for a smooth finish. Carbon nanotubes are excellent candidates for components of tiny nanoelectronic circuits, but their organization into ordered arrays on surfaces remains a major obstacle. In an effort to manipulate their gr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cancer-therapy-penetrates-bone
May 1, 2005
When prostate cancer, one of the most lethal cancers, spreads in the body, it most often targets bone. Difficult to treat, such metastasis is implicated in over 70% of prostate cancer deaths. A new therapy crosses bone barriers. Prof. Zelig Eshhar, Head of the Immunolo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/transistor-genetics-0
May 1, 2005
Take a few tiny spoonfuls of phosphates, sugars and nucleotides to create several types of DNA, add a pinch of carbon nanotubes, sprinkle in a few grains of gold, mix well on a clean silicon surface -and what do you have? A transistor, according to research conducted by Prof. Ron...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/making-heart
May 1, 2005
Right from the beginning, life is all about choices. The decision to proceed down one path eliminates the possibility of taking others, and consequences can be lifelong. Cells in a developing embryo must make such critical, final decisions. The thousands of different t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/dying-live
May 1, 2005
How does one define the borderline between life and death?” asks Prof. David Wallach of the Biological Chemistry Department. Most doctors agree that cessation of heartbeat or brainwaves is the standard indication of human death. For the body’s cells, too, scientists...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/hyde-turned-jekyll
May 1, 2000
While crucial to warding off disease, immune cells have traditionally been thought to be potentially damaging to the central nervous system (CNS) - the brain and the spinal cord. However, a team of Weizmann Institute scientists has now found that immune cells can be...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/reds
May 1, 2005
Each day, your blood travels 19,000 km (12,000 miles) on the circulatory highway. Throughout its journey, a red blood cell (RBC) rides bumper to bumper, enduring dense, merging traffic as it transports its precious load of oxygen or carbon dioxide waste. Like an armored car, the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/going-organic-electronically
May 1, 2000
Organic molecules could shape the future of electronics, say Weizmann Institute scientists who have recently placed common semiconductor-based devices, for the first time ever, under these molecules" control. The inclusion of organic molecules in electronics would provide an...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/and-energy-all
May 1, 2005
An ancient Greek myth relates that Prometheus, son of gods, stole fire from the heavens and gave it to the people on Earth. This gift and all its many applicati...
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