Pioneers in research that has led to better health and medicine world-wide, Weizmann has a long list of achievements.
Weizmann Institute scientists and Ichilov physicians have used intracranial electrodes to reveal how the brain amplifies the risk of loss – and how this may help explain anxiety disorders and post-trauma effects. People are often willing to take risks to make a...
A new Weizmann Institute of Science technology uncovers a neural mechanism that governs infant-parent bonding – and may help explain emotional differences between the sexes. The relationships we form as adults often echo those we had with our parents. According to...
Using transparent zebrafish embryos, Weizmann scientists and Sheba physicians decipher a severe lymphatic disorder and identify a potential treatment. Despite swimming in different worlds, fish and humans are biologically much closer than one might think. Capitalising...
A new collaborative study at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre highlights the crucial role of brain–body crosstalk in health and disease. Nearly a third of cancer-related deaths are caused by cachexia, a currently...
Bacterial species collected from their natural habitat in a series of ponds in Mexico create spectacular kaleidoscopic patterns, shedding new light on collective behaviour according to new Weizmann Institute of Science research. A desert region in northern Mexico...
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and international colleagues have discovered a rare disorder caused by a missing genetic brake, recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Emma Broadbent was born nine years ago in Dallas, Texas, with...
A new AI model being developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science could predict your future health and help you change it. Before an important meeting or when a big decision needs to be made, we often mentally run through various scenarios before settling on the...
Weizmann Institute scientists have discovered hundreds of molecules that promote nerve regeneration in mice – and may even encourage growth in brain neurons. Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal...
Just days after their laboratories were damaged in the Iranian attack of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Professors Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay today publish a study expected to advance the field of blood cell medicine. What if a blood test could reveal the pace of...
New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals that the nervous system can sense fat tissue and that blocking this ability protects mice from metabolic disorders. Popular belief holds that our senses gather information only about the external world, but...
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...
Blocking Mitch – an energy-control protein – prevents fat accumulation in human cells Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have discovered.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
A Weizmann Institute of Science study about a newly discovered immune mechanism holds promise in light of the growing resistance to antibiotics. Much like humans generate mountains of garbage, our cells are constantly discarding proteins that are damaged or no longer...
A collaborative study from the Weizmann Institute of Research has revealed two kinds of scarring, dubbed hot and cold, in injured heart tissue, suggesting that treatments must take the type of scar into account. Not all scars are created equal. That’s the conclusion...
Without their tails, thousands of proteins would be unable to fulfil their vital roles, and new Weizmann research shows that changes to these tails can cause rare genetic diseases. The fatty membrane surrounding every living cell is a vibrant environment where...
A new Weizmann Institute study has identified all of the proteins in a stool sample – those from the microbiome, the human body and food – revealing the hidden secrets of the intestines and their impact on human disease. If the organs in our bodies could talk, the...
In a new Weizmann Institute of Science experiment just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), cooperation was shown to work out better for ants than for humans. Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly...
Weizmann researchers have discovered why the wee hours of the day can be especially dangerous to our health. Why do asthma, heart attacks and many other health conditions tend to strike in the early hours of the morning? One possible explanation for this mysterious...
A newly developed antibody-based treatment for the most aggressive type of breast cancer could also be used to treat many other cancers new Weizmann Institute of Science research shows. “Build your enemy a golden bridge to retreat across” is a piece of advice said by...