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Dan Tawfik

 Prof. Dan Tawfik, Dr. Mikael Elias, Korina Goldin and Alon Wellner
18.11.2012

How do bacteria cope with toxins that resemble nutrients?

Rejecting Arsenate
22.10.2012

Institute scientists reveal how bacteria living in toxic environments identify and expel the poison

 

Engineered Enzyme Protects against Nerve Gas
22.02.2011

“Natural selection” in a test tube improves the enzyme efficiency by a factor of thousands

Weizmann Institute Scientists used Accelerated Evolution to Develop: Enzymes that Provide Protection Against Nerve Gas
24.01.2011
Protection against nerve gas attack is a significant component of the defense system of many countries around the world....
Three-dimensional structure of an enzyme, serum paraoxonase (PON1), which has been mutated in the lab of Prof. Dan Tawfik through directed evolution to endow the enzyme with new functions
30.08.2010

From solving the structure of crystallized proteins to creating computer simulations of protein dynamics, Institute scientists...

Prof. Dan Tawfik. Saving mutations
01.10.2009
Protein "babysitters" could speed up evolution in the lab
The enzyme’s structure (blue), revealed via X-ray crystallography, closely matches its computer design (gray). The yellow structure in the center is the substrate molecule the enzyme acts upon
01.10.2008
Evolution in a test tube takes enzyme design to a new level
What We Are Doing About: Alternative Energy
01.07.2008
Creating environmentally friendly fuel from trash might be the ultimate recycling feat
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Going for Green
01.05.2008
Institute scientists are advancing the search for better fuel
 

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