https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/mechanism-involved-causing-colon-cancer-discovered-weizmann-institute
May 11, 1999
REHOVOT, Israel -- May 11, 1999 -- Weizmann Institute researchers have discovered a molecular mechanism that may be involved in causing colon cancer, according to a study reported in the May 11 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This res...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/weizmann-institute-scientist-designs-first-general-purpose
June 15, 1999
The first general-purpose mechanical computer designed for biomolecular and pharmaceutical applications has been developed by Prof. Ehud Shapiro of the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The mechanical computer will be prese...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/non-invasive-method-diagnosing-cancer-developed-weizmann-institute
July 3, 1997
REHOVOT, Israel - July 3, 1997 - A non-invasive method for distinguishing between different types of tumors, such as malignant and benign, has been developed by Prof. Hadassa Degani of the Weizmann Institute of Science. The approach may also help establish the prognosis of cancer...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/therapeutic-effects-garlic-clarified-weizmann-institute-research
October 14, 1997
REHOVOT, Israel - October 14, 1997 - Garlic is believed to work wonders, from fighting disease to keeping away vampires. Now two studies conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science have uncovered a molecular mechanism which may be the basis for some of garlic's therapeutic eff...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/mathematical-tourist-weizmann-institute-hosts-students-cis
October 13, 1997
REHOVOT, Israel - October 13, 1997 - An elite group of high-school mathematics students from the former Soviet Union have learned that, if you want to get to Israel, you have to do your homework. These 19 students, who visited Israel recently, were chosen from among 3,000 partici...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/weizmann-institute-scientists-develop-potential-future-treatment-myasthenia-gravis
July 1, 1999
Weizmann Institute researchers have developed an effective treatment, administered through the nose, for a myasthenia gravis-like disease in rats, according to a report in the July 6 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The new approac...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/adult-onset-diabetes-imbalancing-act
October 1, 1997
Although diabetes is the Western world's most common metabolic disease, adult-onset diabetes, which affects 90% of diabetes sufferers, is still poorly understood. Unlike the rarer juvenile condition in which the body destroys its own insulin-producing cells, in adult-onset, o...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/yaba-daba-glue-stone-age-use-collagen-discovered
October 1, 1997
Collagen is one of the latest fads of today's cosmetics industry. Now research at the Weizmann Institute reveals that already back in the stone age, humans were putting this organic compound to use, albeit not in rejuvenating cosmetics. Dr. Arie Nissenbaum discovered an 8,000-yea...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/solar-technology-breakthrough
July 6, 1999
An innovative solar power system was presented at the ISES congress. The system has been under development since 1996, within the framework of the US-Israel Science and Technology Foundation, by a consortium, which includes BOEING, ORMAT, and Rotem Industries in collaboration wit...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/muscle-bound-cells
October 1, 1997
For most of us, building up muscle comes from long hours at the gym. A recent study by Dr. Talila Volk of the Weizmann Institute's Molecular Genetics Department has shown that, on the cellular level, becoming muscle-bound is all a matter of who you bump into. Dr. Volk is stu...