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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/newly-uncovered-genes
May 1, 2003
Melanoma, Colon Cancer Scientists at the Weizmann Institute have identified a gene involved in the progression of human melanoma and colon cancer. The new marker for these killer diseases has important implications because it could eventually lead to the screening of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/x-rays-yield-mechanism-alzheimer’s-drug
May 1, 2003
A team of Weizmann scientists has gained new insight into a recently approved Alzheimer’s drug called rivastigmine (currently sold as Exelon (TM)), revealing its molecular mechanism. “The results were surprising,” says Prof. Joel Sussman of the Structural Biology Departme...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/first-glimpses-folding-proteins
May 1, 2003
Proteins, it appears, have taken Frank Sinatra’s “I Did It My Way” to heart. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals how single proteins, each a few nanometers (billionths of a meter) long, fold to assu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/shaping-future
October 1, 1998
History repeats itself. However, can the history of "big things" be deliberately duplicated when developing "the small stuff"? Can massive be made into diminutive? Most importantly, can the process be revealed and then restructured? And what does all of this have to do with cav...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/science-simplicity
May 1, 2003
Ever feel you have too much on your mind and just can't sort it our? Imagine, then, that you were told to build a computer system that could simulate a football game and predict its development. You’d have to work on each one of the game’s many elements separately. Specifically...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/growth-factor
May 1, 1998
Twelve Things You Didn't Know about Professor Yosef Yarden 1. Yarden was born in Tiberias to a family that emigrated to Israel upon the establishment of the state. 2. He grew up in Nazareth Illit, a development town, and to this day remai...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/gullivers-garden
May 1, 1998
If you've ever lived in a city and attempted to grow tomatoes in a windowbox, this story is for you. If you just plain like tomatoes or Jonathan Swift, or for that matter, boutiques and designer tags dangling from your jeans, oops, we mean genes, read on. Couture frui...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/networking-naturally
May 1, 2003
Khad Gadya, the 16th-century song concluding the Passover Seder, describes a succession of allegorical events leading from the purchase of a young goat to the striking down of the Angel of Death: Father bought a young goat for two zuzim; a cat came...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/here-comes-sun
May 1, 1998
Not everyone gets the opportunity to work at his passion. Even as a child in Safed, one of the oldest cities in Israel, Mahmoud Huleihil treasured the purity of his natural surroundings. As an adult, he ventured to another pristine place, Sde Boker in the Negev desert,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/love-wheat
May 1, 2003
Three Israelis from different generations and backgrounds – one a former kibbutznik, the other from France and the third from an Arab village – all wanted to be agronomists yet fell in the love with the science of wheat. As a member of Kibbutz Mishmar David in the 1950s,...
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