Items tagged with “biology”
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Unraveling Stress: Understanding the Mechanisms for Coping
2010-07-28T12:02:47-04:00
Stress is one of life’s universal experiences—everyone is familiar with it, regardless of who they are, where they live, or what they do. But while stress is common, it is hardly simple. Dr. Alon Chen of the Weizmann I...
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Advancing Medicine: From Proteins to Personalized Treatments
2010-06-29T14:19:30-04:00
In the future, the practice and precision of medicine may be very different from what they are today. Prof. Uri Alon of the Department of Molecular Cell Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science foresees a future in whi...
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Science Tips, January 2010
2010-01-14T04:25:30-04:00
To See or Not to See How do the visual images we experience, which have no tangible existence, arise out of physical processes in the brain? New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science provides evidence, for the ...
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Israeli Scientists Show Bacteria Can Plan Ahead
2009-06-17T19:44:00-04:00
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 17, 2009—Bacteria can anticipate a future event and prepare for it, according to new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In a paper that appeared in t...
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Science Tips, May 2009
2009-05-04T20:50:00-04:00
Stopgap DNA Repair Needs a Second Step One can have a dream, two can make that dream so real, goes a popular song. Now a Weizmann Institute study has revealed that it takes two to perform an essential form of DNA repair. P...
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Fluent in Science
2008-11-01T12:45:00-04:00
Like any language, the lingo of scientific literature is understood by its readers and writers but unintelligible to nearly everyone outside the select group of those working and thinking in the field. To outsiders who kn...
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Weizmann Institute Scientists Discover: How an Injured Embryo Can Regenerate Itself and Keep Its Organs in Relative Proportion
2008-06-26T11:38:00-04:00
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 26, 2008—More than 80 years have passed since the German scientist Hans Spemann conducted his famous experiment that laid the foundations for the field of embryoni...
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Weizmann Institute Scientists Reveal the Invasion Strategy of the World's Largest Virus
2008-05-29T11:45:00-04:00
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—May 29, 2008—A Weizmann Institute study provides important new insights into the process of viral infection. The study, reported in the online journal PLoS Biology, rev...
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Birth of an Enzyme
2008-03-24T12:10:00-04:00
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—March 24, 2008—Mankind triumphed in a recent “competition” against nature when scientists succeeded in creating a new type of enzyme for a reaction for which no naturally occurring ...
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Weizmann Institute Scientist Among Recipients of L'OREAL-UNESCO Award for Women in Science
2007-12-19T04:46:00-04:00
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—December 19, 2007—Professor Ada Yonath of the Structural Biology Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is among five distinguished women researchers in the...
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Science Tips, November 2007
2007-11-25T21:59:00-04:00
Wake Up and Smell the Sweat Some people are oblivious to the odor in the locker room after a game, while others wrinkle their noses at the slightest whiff of sweat. Research by Prof. Doron Lancet and research student Idan...
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Science Tips, July 2007
2007-07-26T14:27:00-04:00
The Inside Dope A New Technique May Speed the Development of Molecular Electronics Often, things can be improved by a little “contamination.” Steel, for example, is iron with a bit of carbon mixed in. To produce mater...
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Weizmann Institute Scientists Discover a Key Player in Embryonic Muscle Development
2007-04-11T16:37:00-04:00
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 11, 2007—Muscle fibers are large cells that contain many nuclei. They begin, like all animal cells, as naive embryonic cells. These cells differentiate, producing intermediate cel...
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Scientists Say They've Found a Code Beyond Genetics in DNA
2006-07-26T19:10:00-04:00
Researchers believe they have found a second code in DNA in addition to the genetic code. The genetic code specifies all the proteins that a cell makes. The second code, superimposed on the first, sets the placement of the...
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Beyond the Parts List
2006-06-01T17:10:00-04:00
A new international project combines nanoscience and mechanics with biology in a new approach to biomedical research Even the most inveterate tinkerer must occasionally consult the instruction manual. Unfo...
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HIV Could Fight Immune Diseases
2005-08-26T16:02:00-04:00
The mechanism that HIV uses to gag the immune system could be turned against some very different foes: autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis and rehumatoid arthritis. HIV is a master of attack silencing ...
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The President's Report 2004
2004-12-01T06:09:00-04:00
Dear Members of the Weizmann Institute Family, When friends of the Weizmann Institute—and of Israel—ask me for some good news from our region, I have no difficulty in responding. The irrepressible energy and boundless ...
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Antibiotics in Action
2002-05-01T18:52:00-04:00
Scientists uncover the exact mode of action of five antibiotic drugs Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science and Germany's Max-Planck Society have discovered exactly how each of five antibiotic ...
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Weizmann Institute Scientists Block Loss of Eyesight in Animals With a Glaucoma-like Disease
2001-03-06T10:29:00-04:00
Rehovot, Israel—March 6, 2001—Weizmann Institute scientists have succeeded in stopping the progressive loss of eyesight in animals with a glaucoma-like disease. Their innovative study, reported in the ...