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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/lifes-twists-and-turns
May 1, 1999
The Tower of Babel. That's what you often find when you put biologists and physicists together. Biologists, possessing a rich vocabulary of molecular nomenclature and conditions, are regarded by physicists with bewilderment. A...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/pearling-effect
May 1, 1999
A highlighted sentence in a book on the desk of Prof. Elisha Moses reads: "When the real world is recalcitrant, we build ourselves toy models in which the equations are simple enough for us to solve." Accordingly, Moses built a simplified model of a cell -- similar to a soap bubb...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cell-peer-pressure
May 1, 1999
"Tell me who a cell's neighbors are, and I'll tell you how it looks and behaves," says Prof. Benjamin Geiger, head of the Molecular Cell Biology Department. Together with biologists, chemists and physicists at the Weizmann Institute, he is observing the adhesion of cells in order...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/sun-protection-mechanism-plants-unraveled
October 1, 1994
Agricultural crops resistant to strong sunlight may one day be cultivated in the hottest and most drought-ridden parts of the world thanks to recent finding of Weizmann Institute researchers. The scientists have unraveled the protective mechanism allowing a particularly...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching/math-and-science-scores-skyrocket-negev-towns
October 1, 1994
Pupils in Sderot with Weizmann staff member Mazal Eltahan (left) and teacher Gila Shitrit (right) The number of students from six Negev high schools who passed their final (matriculation) examination in mathematics nearly tripled between 1990 and 1993, thanks, in p...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/first-genetic-word
May 1, 1999
Prof. Edward Trifonov is a detective -- but you won't find him at the scene of any crime. Trifonov, a member of the Weizmann Institute's Structural Biology Department, is a molecular geneticist and in his latest "case" he appears to have discovered the very first genetic sequence...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/china-follows-sun-israels-weizmann-institute
October 1, 1994
The giant People's Republic of China is looking to the Weizmann Institute of Science in tiny Israel to provide it with some of the know-how it requires for developing advanced solar technology. In pursuit of this goal, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has sent to the Institut...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/trimming-down-medicine-cabinet
May 1, 1999
The next item to join the miniaturization trend may soon be the medicine cabinet. Weizmann scientists have found a way to prolong the effect of medication; instead of taking a medicine tablet, say, four times a day,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching/students-turned-teachers
May 1, 1999
There is barely an inch of the noisy hall in Katzir B Junior High School in Rehovot that is not filled with colorful posters and oddly-shaped models illustrating a variety of topics under the heading of "Senses and Sensors." Children throng round tables, showing off their ha...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/flowering-we-will-go
May 1, 1999
The Talmud says every blade of grass has an angel who bends over it whispering, "Grow, grow." A former Weizmann Institute student, not content with whispering, is passing along the word loud and clear from Israel to Germany. That word is Perach (flower in Hebrew...
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