Pioneers in research that has led to better health and medicine world-wide, Weizmann has a long list of achievements.
The discovery of stem cell light and darkness cycles may advance bone marrow transplantation according to new research. Bone marrow replenishes the blood daily with billions of short-lived mature cells, all the while maintaining a full pool of immature stem cells....
A novel technology developed by the Weizmann Institute of Science for profiling protein turnover and degradation is offering new insight into diagnosis and understanding the molecular basis of autoimmunity, cancer, neurodegeneration and other disorders. If we really...
The recovery rates in new immunotherapy treatments for melanoma have risen dramatically, in some cases to around 50%, but these could go higher. A new study led by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and recently published in Cancer Discovery, showed that...
Every day, millions of people take probiotics – preparations containing live bacteria that are meant to fortify their immune systems, prevent disease or repair the adverse effects of antibiotics. But do probiotics facilitate the recolonisation of gut bacteria? A new...
Nitrogen is a basic building block of all the body’s proteins, RNA and DNA, so cancerous tumors are greedy for this element. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in collaboration with colleagues from the National Cancer Institute and elsewhere, have now...
New-generation lung cancer drugs have been effective in a large number of patients, but within about a year, the patients tend to develop resistance to the therapy. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in collaboration with physicians, have conducted a...
It doesn’t often happen that army generals switch sides in the middle of a war, but when cancer’s attack is underway, it may even cause a gene that acts as the body’s master defender to change allegiance. New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science and...
Findings from the Weizmann Institute of Medical Research suggest that boosting signals in certain cells and not in others might help treat colon cancer. Treating inflammatory diseases of the bowel is extremely challenging because their causes are complex: Genes, gut...
When the body needs to repair nerve injury, the machinery is already in place. Hidden within nerve cells is a ‘one-ring-to-rule-them-all’ kind of trigger: a molecular machine that can ramp up the synthesis of the necessary proteins on demand, right at the injured...
The question of nature vs nurture extends to our microbiome – the personal complement of mostly-friendly bacteria we carry around with us and a new study brings more hope for improving our health. Study after study has found that our microbiome affects nearly every...
Being born with a 'tabula rasa' – a clean slate – for the brain is something of a curse. Our brains are already wrinkled like walnuts by the time we are born, but babies born without these wrinkles – smooth brain syndrome – suffer from severe developmental...
A systematic study by the Weizmann Institute of Science, uncovering multiple new and unusual bacterial immune defence mechanisms which could pave the way toward new biotech tools, has just been published in Science. Until a decade ago, scientists were not aware that...
New Weizmann research in bats and published in Science has identified 'social place cells' in the brain that respond to the locations of others in the spatial environment, revealing a sub-population of neurons that encode the specific location of other bats that are...
Global efforts to eradicate malaria are dependent on scientists’ ability to outsmart the malaria parasite and a new study suggests a possible defence in the battle against this disease. Plasmodium falciparum - the parasite that causes malaria - is notoriously clever:...
Autism typically involves the inability to read social cues, often associated with visual difficulty in interpreting facial expression. New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science, reported this week in Nature Neuroscience, suggests that the sense of smell may...
The joint pain associated with osteoarthritis is a big medical problem, with 250 million sufferers worldwide. But according to Professor Jacob Klein of the Weizmann Institute of Science's Department of Materials and Interfaces, the path to such pain may begin with...
In the 1880s, Russian zoologist EIie Metchnikoff invented the term macrophage – meaning 'big eater' – for a certain type of white blood cell, due to the way it devours and digests cellular debris and foreign particles as part of the body’s immune defence. Now...
The idea of proteins that can be designed on computers for specific functions has been a cutting-edge concept that has stubbornly remained 'in the future' however new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science may bring that future a bit closer. By going back to...
We often hear about the multitude of genes we have in common with chimps, birds or other living creatures, but such comparisons are sometimes misleading. The shared percentage usually refers only to genes that encode instructions for making proteins – while...
New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science published in Cell Reports and recently reported in The Times of Israel, indicates that oxygen starvation could toughen up immune T cells for cancer immunotherapy. So it is not just mountain climbers and endurance...
There is another reason why chemotherapy sometimes does not work: bacteria. In a study published in Science, researchers found that certain bacteria can be found inside human pancreatic tumours, with some containing an enzyme that inactivates a common drug used to...
She was born into poverty yet Professor Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science, became one of four women to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and the first woman in the Middle East to receive it in Science. How? Like Einstein, with “curiosity and...
Analysing cancer stem cell populations in first-time patients enabled researchers to predict who was most likely to suffer a relapse. For some cancers, remission does not last long: The cancer returns after a few months or years, frequently resistant to the drugs used...
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have found a whole new role for one of the most famous proteins in cancer research – p53. If any gene has a celebrity status, it is the tumour suppressor p53. The gene has been featured on magazine covers, pronounced...