Health & Medicine
“To Understand the Principles of Life”: The Journey of Prof. Ada Yonath from Ribosomes to the Nobel Prize
After decades of work, Prof. Ada Yonath deciphered the structure of the ribosome—research so important that she won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Tiny RNA Molecules Have a Big Role in Disease
February 2010
For years, it was thought that tiny microRNAs did not have an important function. Now, Dr. Eran Hornstein has found that they actually play a key role in helping to...
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Science Tips
Three research updates from the Weizmann Institute: the activity behind the experience of seeing; a pink tomato’s genetic secrets; and how tendons shape bones.
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Improving the Odds: A New Method For Bone Marrow Transplantation From Mismatched Donors Restores the Immune System Faster
Weizmann scientist and international colleagues find that new method for bone marrow transplantation from mismatched donors restores the immune system faster.
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Weizmann Institute Scientists Reveal How Smells Are Bound Up In Our Memories
Proust famously used a madeleine to link smell and memory; now, Weizmann research has revealed the scientific basis for the connection between the two.
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Basic Science Research and Multiple Sclerosis
One Weizmann Institute of Science research success story features the multiple sclerosis (MS) drugs Copaxone® and Rebif®. These two medicines are now frontline...
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Maintaining Blood Vessel Integrity
Research by institute scientists aimed at studying the adhesion and motility of cells in blood vessels may help control the debilitating complications of diabetes -...