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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/record-breaking-feat
October 1, 1997
Gallium arsenide crystals developed at the Weizmann Institute have broken the world record for purity and speed. The enclosure is glass-walled. Through the glass door a long tube resembling a telescope is visible. A sign on the wall identifies the apparatus as a molecular be...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/rebif-spells-relief
October 1, 1997
A new drug for multiple sclerosis, the second MS medication to emerge recently from Weizmann Institute research, promises relief for the many victims of this debilitating condition. For a million young people around the world, the joys of young adulthood are hea...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/historic-landmark
October 1, 1997
The renovated Wolf Building housing the Ilse and Maurice Katz Magnetic Resonance Laboratory for Biomedical Research A host of large buildings housing world-famous research facilities dominates the winding roads of the Weizmann Institute's verd...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/morphine-effect-key-brain-mechanism-determined
October 1, 1994
The chemistry of morphine addiction is being studied by Prof. Rabi Simantov of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Virology. Part of this research, recently published in Neurosciences Letters, may shed light on the addictive properties of a wide range of other...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/powerful-idea
October 1, 1997
A shiny round motor has spun its way around the world, from an impoverished Russian laboratory to an Israeli science park to a Californian manufacturer. Thanks to the determination of a young researcher and a program designed to tap the know-how of immigrant scientists, this...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/interview-gershon-kekst
October 1, 1994
Gershon Kekst Q: When did you first become involved with the Weizmann Institute? A: About 30 years ago I went to a Weizmann dinner at the Waldorf Astoria. It began with a one-by-one introduction of the scientists who were to sit...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/expanding-horizons
October 1, 1997
Perach mentor with his young charge Galit was "the silent one." Ever since the 12-year-old Russian immigrant had arrived in school, she had refused to talk. At last, her teachers turned to Perach, a program that matched Galit with Irit Ben-Simon, a university-...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/weizmann-scientists-honored-research-achievements
October 1, 1994
Institute Prof. Nathan Sharon, world famous for his research on sugars and the sugar-binding proteins known as lectins, was awarded the 1994 Israel Prize in the Life Sciences at a festive Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem. Sharon, the sixteenth Institute scientist to rece...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/interview-samy-cohn
October 1, 1997
Samy Cohn Ph.D. Honoris Causa of the Weizmann Institute Q: Your involvement with the Institute has been very intense. Is there a story behind it? Samy Cohn: I suppose in a way there is. When I was a child in the Romanian village of Stefanesti, my mother ow...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/ancient-wisdom-modern-drug
May 1, 1997
For centuries, Chinese doctors have been using a moss called Qian Ceng Ta, or Huperzia serrata, to treat a variety of ills, from swelling to schizophrenia. Now a Weizmann Institute study has shown how this ancient remedy can be used to develop a modern treatment for Alzheime...
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