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

The Know-How Kids

Sep 2, 2026 | Enriching Education

New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that even second graders can reason like scientists – if we ask them the right way. When a child asks: “Why does a blowfish puff up?” we often jump in with facts. But what if we paused and suggested that they...

Professor Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureate and a Model of Scientific Perseverance, Has Passed Away

Sep 2, 2026 | Improving Health and Medicine, Weizmann in the News

From pursuing an impossible dream to uncovering one of the cell’s best-kept secrets and advancing the design of improved antibiotics, these were just some of the achievements of Professor Ada Yonath. Professor Yonath, laureate of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and...

When the Gut Can’t Forget: A New Mechanism Promoting Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Aug 27, 2026 | Improving Health and Medicine

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have discovered that transient intestinal inflammation can leave irreversible changes in the gut lining, leading to Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. The new findings point to new directions for treatment and early...

From Brain Wiring to Stress and Metabolism: One Gene Has a Finger on the Switch

Aug 20, 2026 | Brain and Neural Science, Improving Health and Medicine

New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that a master switch gene known to shape the brain before birth, is repurposed in the adult brain to regulate mental and metabolic networks. Many of us find ourselves losing our appetite – or, conversely,...

The DNA Repair Crew Has Favorites

Aug 13, 2026 | Improving Health and Medicine

Not every DNA mistake gets fixed. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have uncovered how repair enzymes choose which genetic damage deserves attention. When a wound does not heal properly, it leaves a scar. Similarly, mutations – which are permanent...

Viagra May Reduce Cancer Metastasis, Study Shows

Jul 25, 2026 | Fighting Cancer, Improving Health and Medicine

The blockbuster drug Viagra may strengthen a newly discovered cholesterol-regulating mechanism that could be harnessed to curb cancer spread, according to new collaborative research at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Viagra was originally developed to treat high...

Immune Therapy for Alzheimer’s Takes a Step Forward

Jul 16, 2026 | Brain and Neural Science, Improving Health and Medicine

A Phase 1 clinical trial has reported positive results for a brain-protective immunotherapy in early Alzheimer's disease, a therapy based on work from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Dozens of research teams around the world are working to halt, treat and even...

A Magnetic Clue to Life’s Origins

Jul 7, 2026 | Exploring the Physical World

A new study suggests that magnetic surfaces may influence not only the ‘handedness’ of biological molecules, but also their isotope composition – connecting two fundamental fingerprints of life. The study, offering new clues to the origin of life on Earth, began at a...

One Plant, Three Kingdoms, Five Trips

Jun 25, 2026 | Improving Health and Medicine

Weizmann Institute scientists have deciphered how a well-known psychedelic substance is created, and now they have engineered a plant to produce several psychedelics at once. Long before scientists began studying them in the lab, mind-altering substances were already...

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...

Representing the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS)

Representing the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS)