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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Birth of an Enzyme
Scientists from the Weizmann Institute and the University of Washington, Seattle, successfully created a new type of enzyme for a reaction for which no naturally occurring enzyme has evolved.
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Brain Circuits That Suppress Memory Found
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Edith Wolfson Medical Center used MRI to identify brain circuits that play a key role in memory suppression.
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Science Tips, November 2007
Three research updates from the Weizmann Institute of Science: smelling sweat; explaining the link between genetic repeats and diseases; and how the immune system checks the identity of cells.
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Sweet Smell
Scientists from the Weizmann Institute and the University of California at Berkeley discovered that the molecular structure of a substance can help predict how we will perceive its smell.
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Weekend Live - Discussion of Weizmann Research on Cell Phones and Cancer
Read the Weekend Live broadcast transcript about a Weizmann Institute study that investigated cell phone radiation and its effects on brain cells and cancer.
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Rats' Long-term Memory Erased in Study
A research team led by Prof. Yadin Dudai has found a way to erase long-term memory in rats. The study's results could give drug makers a roadmap for developing new treatments related to memory.