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Dan Toufik

In his first years at the Weizmann Institute, Toufik's research dealt with ways to develop artificial enzymes that would accelerate chemical processes that do not occur in nature. Dan Toufik (left), together with Prof. Rashef Tana, also from the Weizmann Institute, who won the AMT Award for Nanotechnology in 2020, the year in which Toufik won the same award in the field of biochemistry | Weitzman Institution of Science

The late Dan Toufik: the researcher who understood proteins

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Prof. Dan Toufik from the Weizmann Institute of Science, who was killed in a climbing accident, was one of the senior researchers in the field of the development of artificial proteins and the study of the evolution of proteins
The oxygen revolution left its geochemical record in the iron deposits in the earth's mantle and rocks

The oxygen before the oxygen revolution

By tracing the evolution of proteins, Weizmann Institute of Science scientists have charted the history of oxygen availability on Earth and solved a long-standing scientific puzzle
On the way to the ancestors of the cells: in the presence of RNA, the primitive peptide leads to the separation of an event (like the separation of oil droplets in water), which enables self-assembly and the creation of a configuration of a kind of primitive "compartment"

The building block of the first proteins was discovered

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Dr. Maria Louisa Romero-Romero and Prof. Dan Toufik. Time travel. Photo: Weizmann Institute spokesperson

Following the first proteins

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Felicia Wolf Simon and one of her colleagues near Mono Lake in California

between two molecules

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From the right: Dr. Moshe Goldsmith, Prof. Israel Silman, Prof. Dan Toufik, Prof. Yoel Zussman, Moshe Ben-David. (Back): Dr. Chaim Lider and Dr. Yaakov Eshani. Defense formation

The liberation movement

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green energy

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Thanks to the exchange

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