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Before the Aliens, the Amino Acids

Jun 11, 2026 | Frontiers of the Universe

A Weizmann-led team has proposed a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter’s icy moons, in meteorites or in Martian samples. Before any wrinkled, wide-eyed creature from a distant civilisation asks to be taken home, the...

Pandemic in Fast Forward

Jun 4, 2026 | Improving Health and Medicine

Israeli and Czech scientists have recreated the coronavirus’ evolutionary journey in a test tube – revealing the conditions that can produce highly contagious variants. A key step in the origin of many pandemics occurs when an animal-borne virus infects humans and...

When the Body Remembers the Tumour

May 29, 2026 | Fighting Cancer, Improving Health and Medicine

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have discovered immune memory cells capable of producing antibodies against cancer – a finding that opens new avenues for future cancer vaccines. While we tend to quickly forget having been ill or having received a vaccine,...

A Glimpse at the Origins of Life Through a Deceptive Mirror

May 20, 2026 | Exploring the Physical World, Improving Health and Medicine

Weizmann Institute of Science and Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists may have solved a 150-year-old puzzle about why life favours one mirror-image molecule over another. Imagine looking at yourself in the mirror, only to find that your reflection is governed by...

Facing Danger with Maturity

May 17, 2026 | Fighting Cancer, Improving Health and Medicine

Weizmann Institute of Science and Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists have discovered that stem cell maturation can also serve as an immune defence mechanism. We all begin life as a collection of embryonic stem cells that have a remarkable ability to mature into...

Novel Molecular Marker May Improve Prostate Cancer Treatment

May 13, 2026 | Weizmann in Australia

An international research team led by the Weizmann Institute of Science has uncovered a key mechanism of prostate cancer treatment resistance and points to a potential combination therapy for patients. Most prostate cancers rely on male sex hormones, known as...

Revolving Doors and Efficient Engines: How Proteins Escape a Molecular Tangle

May 3, 2026 | Fighting Cancer, Improving Health and Medicine

A new study from the Weizmann Institute of Science has revealed how energy-efficient cellular machines rapidly untangle misfolded proteins – a finding that may help improve the design of artificial molecular machines. Trying to untangle a knot in a mess of strings can...

A Journey to the Centre of the Liver

Apr 16, 2026 | Improving Health and Medicine

A first-of-its-kind genetic atlas, developed by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, together with colleagues at Sheba Medical Center and the Mayo Clinic, reveals how human liver cells divide their labour – and why some regions are especially vulnerable to...

Traps Could Unlock the Mystery of Lunar Ice

Apr 7, 2026 | Exploring the Physical World, Frontiers of the Universe

New evidence from the Weizmann Institute of Science and collaborators in the United States, suggests that ice has been accumulating on the Moon for 1.5 billion years – and reveals the most promising places to find it. More than half a century after the last crewed...

High-Rise Living: The Tiny Engineers that Build with Their Bodies

Mar 30, 2026 | Environmental Sustainability, Exploring the Physical World

Weizmann Institute scientists have revealed how weaver ants ‘think’ as a group and link their bodies together to ‘zipper’ the treetops. The rainforests of northern Australia are home to extraordinary ant colonies. Instead of dwelling in underground burrows, these ants...

Representing the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS)