The Weizmann Institute's first virtual Annual Impact Report • Weizmann Australia

MRI Gets a Nano-Sized Upgrade

May 22, 2025 | Advancing Technology

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have achieved an MRI resolution of one billionth of a metre, paving the way for the most detailed images of individual molecules ever produced. This new development will play a major role in the materials and pharmaceutical...

Whisker Whispers

May 16, 2025 | Advancing Technology, Brain and Neural Science, Improving Health and Medicine

New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals how mouse whiskers can ‘hear’ the world. Nestled in dark burrows, with a limited sense of vision, mice brush their whiskers against their environment to navigate and to detect objects around them. This...

Cracking the Disorder

May 14, 2025 | Exploring the Physical World, Frontiers of the Universe, Videos

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have uncovered physical laws explaining why cracks in materials break their symmetry while spreading. These findings lay the groundwork for the design of more resilient materials which could have significant implications for...

Slimming with Mitch

May 8, 2025 | Improving Health and Medicine

Blocking Mitch – an energy-control protein – prevents fat accumulation in human cells Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have discovered.

Wake-Up Call for Dormant Cancer

Apr 22, 2025 | Fighting Cancer, Improving Health and Medicine

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have revealed how breast cancer cells enter a state of dormancy, remaining undetected for years, and why they suddenly wake up and metastasize. Breast cancer is becoming increasingly treatable, but in some cases the...

Beyond Words

Apr 22, 2025 | Advancing Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Weizmann Institute researchers have revealed that the melody of spoken English functions as a distinct language, with a vocabulary and rules of syntax. The findings lay the foundation for an AI that will understand language beyond just words. The AI revolution, which...

The Master Switch That Can Turn Immune Cells into Cancer Eradicators

Apr 11, 2025 | Fighting Cancer, Improving Health and Medicine

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have identified a gene that reprograms macrophages into cancer-promoting cells — and show how to switch it off. To grow, cancer tumours must hijack the immune system for their needs. One of the main tricks that most...

All embroidery colours

Apr 2, 2025 | Advancing Technology, Improving Health and Medicine

AI-based technology developed in Dr Liat Keren's lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science has shown it enables an unprecedented view of processes in body tissues. Artificial intelligence systems are working magic in many areas of the life sciences – they help decipher...

Getting Cancer to Expose Itself

Mar 28, 2025 | Fighting Cancer, Improving Health and Medicine

Researchers from Professor Yardena Samuels’s lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science have manipulated cancer cells into making themselves visible to the immune system, creating a new approach that gives hope to patients with previously untreatable disease. When your...

They’d Rather Die: The Lesson That Male Roundworms Refuse to Learn

Mar 24, 2025 | Brain and Neural Science, Improving Health and Medicine

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have found that male roundworms do not learn from experience as well as females do – and discovered the neural receptor responsible, which also exists in humans. In human society, men tend to be seen as risk-takers,...

Representing the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS)

Representing the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS)