Feature Stories
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Unraveling Stress: Understanding the Mechanisms for Coping
Unregulated stress can lead to diabetes, heart disease, depression, and many other conditions. Thankfully, Dr. Alon Chen is investigating the body’s stress response, and hopes to develop tools for managing stress-related...
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Advancing Medicine: From Proteins to Personalized Treatments
By identifying network motifs—common recurring patterns—in the way proteins interact, Prof. Uri Alon is laying the groundwork for the future of medicine: therapies tailored to each person's needs.
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Understanding Alzheimer’s
Prof. Joel Sussman has spent years studying Alzheimer's disease. His ongoing research holds promise not only for better understanding, but also for improveid medicines to treat this devastating conditon.
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Inside Stories: Beer, Science, and Good Spirits
August 2010
Weizmann scientists and graduate students ventured out to coffee shops and pubs in Rehovot to share their knowledge, part of the Institutes’ ongoing public educational outreach efforts.
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Targeting Tumors: A New Strategy for Prostate Cancer Treatment
Weizmann scientists are fighting prostate cancer by combining chlorophyll and light. This powerful treatment may work for other cancers, too.
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Tiny RNA Molecules Have a Big Role in Disease
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 regulate gene expression.
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p53 and Personalized Medicine
Prof. Varda Rotter has devoted her career to a gene called p53—now known as the "guardian of the genome" because it protects us from developing cancer—and the possibility of tailor-made chemotherapy.
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Environmental and Lifestyle Factors and Cancer
The way we live today is linked to high cancer rates. Weizmann Institute scientists study how infectious agents, including viruses, bacteria, and parasites, as well as radiation exposure, can lead to cancer.
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Tubes with a Twist
Weizmann scientists came up with a new type of nanotube—built of gold, silver, and other nanoparticles—that may form the basis for future nanosensors, catalysts, and chemistry-on-a-chip systems.