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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/high-level-biosafety-laboratory-established
May 1, 1994
More detailed research on potentially dangerous microorganisms will now be possible at the Institute thanks to the new Marcel Mérieux Foundation Biohazard-P3 Laboratory, established last month on the Weizmann campus. The environmentally isolated facility will enable a major...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/science-without-frontiers-light-tomorrows-technology
May 1, 1997
Future computers and other devices will probably use light instead of electrical currents to store and transmit information, thus increasing their capacity and speed. A group of Weizmann Institute scientists is working on a technique that may raise the storage capacity of devices...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cop-1-copaxone®-story-drug
May 1, 1997
In December 1996, following nearly three decades of research, the multiple sclerosis drug copolymer-1 (Copaxone®) became one of the first Israeli medications to receive the approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Prof. Ruth Arnon, the Institute's Vice President for Int...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/mysteries-embryo-development-probed
May 1, 1994
Institute researchers have thrown new light on one of the greatest mysteries of biology - how intricate cellular mechanisms allow the fertilized egg, a single cell, to develop into a complex three-dimensional structure with trillions of cells that form various tissues and or...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/sun-rises-pilot-power-project
May 1, 1997
A unique pilot solar power plant is about to be set up at the Weizmann Institute. Its construction is the first step in a large-scale U.S.-Israel project whose ultimate goal is to build commercial solar power stations throughout the world. The project's participants are Amer...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/high-salt-high-hopes-high-tech
May 1, 1997
Dunaliella bardawil, a single-celled alga so resistant to salt and sunlight that it can even survive in the hostile environment of the Dead Sea, is turning out to be a very versatile little creature. It was Weizmann Institute scientists -- the late Prof. Mordhay Avron a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/milestone-relations-germany
May 1, 1997
The newest bead in a "magnificent string of pearls" is how former Max Planck Society President Prof. Hans Zacher described the Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Minerva Center for Supramolecular Architectures at its inauguration during the Weizmann Institute Board of Governors meeti...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/self-tinting-coating-plastic-lenses-developed
May 1, 1994
Self-tinting eyeglasses with plastic lenses may soon be significantly improved thanks to a new material developed by Institute scientists. The material, a polymer that darkens when exposed to sun, can be used to create an ultrathin coating on plastic lenses. Self-tinting spe...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/interview-yehuda-assia
May 1, 1997
A longtime member of the Institute's Board of Governors, recipient of a Weizmann Institute honorary Ph.D. and a member of the Institute's Executive Council as well as its Executive Committee and Budget and Finance Committee, Yehuda Assia also plays a major role behind the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-sleepover
May 1, 1997
Starting Young - Aspiring scientists from the Druse village of Maghar experience research firsthand Since particle accelerators, laser labs, submicron centers and solar towers can't be brought into the classroom, the Weizmann Institute's Field School of Scie...
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