Pioneers in research that has led to better health and medicine world-wide, Weizmann has a long list of achievements.
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have produced a cellular factory-on-a-chip which could be used to design, produce and test drugs against antibiotic resistant bacteria. The ribosome is a cell’s protein factory and is the only natural machine that...
Weizmann Institute scientists, in collaboration with the Edith Wolfson Medical Center, have developed SmellTracker – an online platform that enables self-monitoring of an individual's sense of smell – for the purpose of detecting early signs of COVID-19 or in the...
Weizmann Institute scientists have presented a mathematical model that presents a coronavirus exit strategy and a way to restart the economy after the crisis. Think of dieting. You can fast for two months and lose weight, but you will probably die. Even if you...
Numerical data sometimes reveal facts that are otherwise concealed within the rushing flow of information from an overwhelming number of sources. Professor Ron Milo and research student Yinon Bar-On of the Weizmann Institute's Department of Plant and Environmental...
The Weizmann Institute of Medical Research and Weizmann Australia have produced online presntation and information videos, plus others about Weizmann what science they are doing with regard to Coronovirus and similar. If you are interested in finding out more please...
A method of predicting the coronavirus spread, pioneered and developed by Weizmann Institute scientists, may enable the authorities to focus efforts on areas where an outbreak is anticipated – and relieve measures taken in others. Several countries, including the...
In light of the severe constraints in performing a sufficient amount of coronavirus tests in Israel, the Weizmann Institute of Science decided to contribute significantly to the national mission and use its advanced laboratories to perform coronavirus tests. In...
A diligent student might stay in the classroom during recess to go over the recently learned material instead of playing in the schoolyard. However, new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests that the neurons in a part of the brain called the amygdala...
A study in mice by the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests how an acute inflammatory immune response in pregnancy may be tied to autism spectrum disorders. Despite extensive research, scientists are still unsure about the causes of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs)...
One of the frustrations with anti-cancer therapy is that no one drug fits all: Most work well in some people but have little effect in other patients with the same type of cancer. This is as true of the newer immunotherapy treatments as it is of older types of...
A new computer algorithm can predict during early stages of pregnancy, or even before pregnancy, which women are at a high risk of gestational diabetes, according to a study by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science reported in Nature Medicine. The study...
A host of disease-causing viruses called ‘arenaviruses’ lurk in animal populations in various parts of the world, sometimes crossing over into humans. When they do cross over, they can be lethal, and few treatments exist. Now researchers at the Weizmann Institute of...
One day ‘blue blood’ might be synonymous with a way to help the heart heal. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science found that a non-toxic blue dye used in biology labs can help repair damaged heart tissue in mice. The results of this research were recently...
Is a pair of brain structures called the olfactory bulbs, which are said to encode our sense of smell, really essential? Weizmann Institute of Science researchers has shown that some humans can smell without olfactory bulbs. Their finding around 0.6% of women and up...
Our brains are so primed to recognise faces to tell people apart we rarely stop to think about it. But what happens in the brain when it engages in such recognition is still far from understood. In a new study reported in Nature Communications, researchers at the...
A Weizmann Institute of Science laboratory has joined forces with a research team in Cologne, Germany, to uncover details of the immune system’s molecular response following vaccination against Ebola. Their findings may help health organisations devise better...
New Weizmann Institute of Science research shows heterogeneity in melanoma tumours prevents effective immune responses. Diversity – at least among cancer cells – is not a good thing. Weizmann research shows that in melanoma, tumours with cells that have differentiated...
Weizmann Institute Scientists have uncovered a neuronal mechanism central to human free recall with the findings recently published in Science. Extra-terrestrial scientists landing in a football stadium would be struck by the sight of the crowd suddenly standing up...
First impressions are important – they can set the stage for the entire course of a relationship. The same is true for the impressions the cells of our immune system form when they first meet a new bacterium. Using this insight, Weizmann Institute of Science...
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have shown in mice that intestinal microbes, collectively termed the gut microbiome, may affect the course of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, which damages motor neurons in the...
The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain. Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the...
A cancer research project conducted recently at the Weizmann Institute of Science evokes an unusual image: hippos. The research is not about the weighty, mud-basking mammals, but about the ‘Hippo pathway’, a chain of biochemical reactions that, when disrupted, can...
In collaboration with scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, privately owned company Steba Biotech conducted extensive research and development on the prostate cancer drug TOOKAD®, which has now received marketing authorisation to make it available in 31...
A shot of espresso, a piece of chocolate or a headstand – all of these have been recommended before taking a big test. The best advice, however, could be to take a deep breath. According to research conducted in the lab of Professor Noam Sobel of the Weizmann...