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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/innovative-treatment-enables-paralyzed-rats-regain-partial-use-their-hind-legs
June 30, 1998
REHOVOT, Israel -- June 30, 1998 -- Weizmann Institute scientists have managed to partially heal the damaged spinal cords of laboratory animals, according to a study reported in the July issue of Nature Medicine. A team led by Prof. Michal Schwartz of the Neurobiology Department...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-approach-fighting-autoimmune-diseases
January 25, 1996
REHOVOT, Israel -- January 25, 1996 -- A natural mechanism by which the body turns off inflammation may serve as a basis for the design of a new class of drugs against multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. This mechanism -- demonstrated by a team of scie...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/can-amplifier-be-turned
January 1, 1996
The growth of breast cancer and other malignancies is spurred by a molecular "amplifier" that augments signals received by tumor cells, according to a new study led by Prof. Yosef Yarden of the Weizmann Institute's Molecular Cell Biology Department. This...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-drug-delivery-system-may-help-fight-rheumatoid-arthritis
June 26, 1996
REHOVOT, Israel -- June 26, 1996 -- A potential method for treating rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease and other chronic inflammatory disorders has been developed in an animal study conducted by Weizmann Institute and Ben-Gurion University researchers. This approach -- de...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/prof-israel-dostrovsky-1918-2010
September 28, 2010
Rehovot, Israel, Sept. 28, 2010 Prof. Israel Dostrovsky was born in Odessa, the former USSR, in 1918 and arrived in Eretz-Israel in 1919. After attending primary and secondary school in Jerusalem, he went to study in England and received a B.Sc. in chemistry in 1940 a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/nothing-sneeze
January 1, 1996
A gene responsible for the production of an allergy-blocking protein has been discovered by the team of Prof. Israel Pecht at Weizmann Institute's Immunology Department. Allergic reactions occur when a substance known as an allergen -- pollen, pet dander and mold a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/getting-bang-out-experiment
January 1, 1996
Steven Spielberg, move over. An international team of physicists is recreating a world that existed billions of years before the one portrayed in Jurassic Park. Using the world's most powerful atom-smasher, the group -- in which researchers from the Institute...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/tight-squeeze
January 1, 1996
One of the first things we learn about nature is that water turns into a solid when it is frozen. For this change of state to occur, drastic alterations in environment such as a drop in temperature or an increase in pressure were always considered necessary -- until now. We...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/world-famous-physicist-arkady-aronov-remembered-weizmann-institute-physics-symposium
January 7, 1996
REHOVOT, Israel -- January 7 , 1996 -- New developments in solid state physics will be discussed this week (January 8-12) at the Arkady Aronov Memorial Symposium to be held in Zichron Ya'akov, near Haifa, under the aegis of the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Heraeus Fo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/yaakov-naan-appointed-weizmann-institute-vice-president-finance-and-administration
January 8, 1996
REHOVOT, Israel -- January 8, 1996 --Yaakov Naan is about to join the Weizmann Institute as Vice President for Finance and Administration. He will take office on February 1, 1996, replacing David Schlachet, who is leaving to engage in private business after having served in this...
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