Pioneers in research that has led to better health and medicine world-wide, Weizmann has a long list of achievements.
If you dance cheek-to-cheek with a partner, your rhythms soon synchronise, so you move smoothly across the floor. Heart cells that beat – cardiomyocytes – are the same. If you grow embryonic heart cells on a flexible material, you can not only observe this...
A new study of lab-grown neurons by the Weizmann Institute of Research reveals a new regulatory mechanism for keeping the On-Off switches in our brain in balance Our brain has On and Off switches for all its activities, and maintaining a balance between the two is...
Being constantly hungry, no matter how much you eat – that's the daily struggle of people with genetic defects in the brain's appetite controls, and it often ends in severe obesity. In a study recently published in Science researchers at the Weizmann Institute of...
Our body’s proteins are largely the same as those of apes and monkeys, and the similarities extend even to the less human-like creatures: We share roughly 90 percent of our proteins with mice and 70 percent with fish. But if proteins, and the genes that encode them,...
A new method is set to reveal the hidden first stages of embryonic development – from a tiny ball of cells to organ growth – this unique research is from the Weizmann institute of Science and recently published in Nature. To observe how a tiny ball of identical cells...
Cancer immunotherapy may get a boost from an unexpected direction: bacteria residing within tumour cells. In a new study published in Nature, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and their collaborators have discovered that the immune system ‘sees’ these...
A collaborative research effort at the Weizmann Institute of Science has revealed that deadly malaria parasites’ are a pre-invasion strategy for softening up red blood cells. Red blood cells are the body's lifeline, but they also serve as the perfect hosts for one of...
Multiple myeloma patients live much longer today than in the past, thanks to new targeted anti-myeloma drugs, but ultimately most develop resistance to the medications, and in some the disease is resistant to therapy from the start. Weizmann Institute of Science...
Bacteria that cause life-threatening infections sometimes resort to the nastiest ploy of all: Stealing the human body's defence weapons and exploiting them to their own advantage. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now uncovered one such...
Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, focused on uncovering the activities organs, tissues and cells responsible for our body’s stress response has revealed new cells and possible new drug targets. Chronic stress is a...
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have observed slow spontaneous fluctuations in the brain’s visual centres preceding visual hallucinations in blind people. Some people lose their eyesight, but continue to ‘see’. This vivid visual hallucination is named...
A study of melanoma cells explains a puzzling response they exhibit to ward off T cell attacks. Cancers like melanoma are hard to treat, not least because they have a varied bag of tricks for defeating or evading treatments. A combined research effort by scientists...
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, vol. 5 Communication with others – verbal and nonverbal – is part of what makes us human. These abilities are encoded in the...
Peculiar hybrid structures called retrons that are half RNA, half single-strand DNA are found in many species of bacteria. Since their discovery around 35 years ago, researchers have learned how to use retrons for producing single strands of DNA in the lab, but no one...
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have found that gut microbes and host cells jointly contribute to the progression of acute liver failure – a mostly incurable disease – yet also gave clues to treatment. Acute liver failure is a devastating, rapidly...
We cannot stop the march of time, but our perception of time can shrink or stretch. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science recently uncovered a new cognitive bias: The way in which we experience the passage of time can be distorted by a process where we...
Nicola Tesla thought up his alternating current induction motor while walking, Margaret Atwood comes up with ideas while bird-watching, and Archimedes was famously inspired to formulate the laws of buoyancy while sitting in his bath. Researchers at the Weizmann...
By tracking the evolution of what may be our oldest means of fighting off viral infection, a group at the Weizmann Institute of Science has uncovered a gold mine of antiviral substances that may lead to the development of highly effective antiviral drugs. These...
A research team at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Israel Institute for Biological Research, in Ness Ziona, Israel, has a new approach to understanding the COVID-19 virus that may lead to better diagnostics and treatment. ‘Contact tracing’ inside infected cells...
A new approach to chronic pain treatment developed by the Weizmann Institute of Science targets a molecule that moves pain messages into nerve cell nuclei. Something like a quarter of the world’s population suffers from chronic pain at some point in their lives. As...
A new technology developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science may help answer outstanding questions about the immune system, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more. Invading cells’ private space – prying into their internal functions, decisions and communications – could be...
A new study in mice at the Weizmann Institute of Science show that the mother’s natural anti-viral proteins disrupted the development of neural circuits in the foetus. Findings emerging from the study – recently published in Nature – showed that when a pregnant woman...
Weizmann Institute of Science and Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Clalit Health Services, recently signed a memorandum of understanding on a collaborative biomedical research initiative. The ‘Schneider-Weizmann Center for Research on Child and Adolescent...
Choosing the right drug for each cancer patient is key to successful treatment, but currently physicians have few reliable pointers to guide them in designing treatment protocols. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard...