Pioneers in research that has led to better health and medicine world-wide, Weizmann has a long list of achievements.
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...
How does attention direct the subconscious actions of our sensory organs? Many of us have had the experience of sitting on the sofa at the end of a long day with the TV on, all the while letting thoughts run through our heads. When we finally actually look at the...
Israel is subjected to sand and dust storms from several directions: northeast from the Sahara, northwest from Saudi Arabia and southwest from the desert regions of Syria. The airborne dust carried in these storms affects the health of people and ecosystems alike. New...
While the symptoms of binge-eating disorder usually first appear in adolescence, a new study shows that the seeds of the disorder may be sown in the womb as a result of maternal stress during pregnancy. The research was conducted by a team of Weizmann Institute...
A newly discovered immune cell type by Weizmann scientists may lead to a future treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease manifested by various neuronal pathological processes and a significant decline in brain function....
Bread occupies a unique place in our diet: it accounts for about one-tenth of the calories many people in the West consume and up to 40% of the caloric consumption in some non-Western countries – more than any other food product. In the past few decades, since white...
Eight years ago he was a postdoctoral student of Nobel Laureate, Professor Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science, spending three years in Israel studying. Now Dr Matthew Belousoff of Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI), is...
We usually think of the immune system as the body’s police force, vigilantly patrolling for invading pathogens and toxins to destroy—but a new study published in Nature Communications from Professor Orly Reiner’s laboratory in the Weizmann Institute's Department of...
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have found that genes mostly active in one sex or the other, may play a crucial role in our evolution and health, uncovering thousands of human genes that are expressed (copied out to make proteins) differently in the...
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Small aquarium fish that fail to swim toward schools of fish on the side of their tanks are yielding clues to human conduct. New research in the laboratory of Professor Gil Levkowitz of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Molecular Cell Biology Department follows the...
At times we all lose our nerve. But certain nerve losses, crucial during early nervous system development, may later play a role in diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or peripheral neuropathy. New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science is...
Professor Yosef Yarden, a member of the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Biological Regulation, has been awarded the 2017 Israel Prize in Life Sciences. The Prize, which is the country’s highest honour, will be presented to Professor Yarden in celebration of his...
People might eat greens to lower their cholesterol levels, but contrary to common belief, most plants are not cholesterol-free. Reported recently in Nature Plants, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now deciphered the biochemical reactions...
If you get up in the morning feeling energetic and clearheaded, you can thank your liver for manufacturing glucose before breakfast time. Among a host of other vital functions, it also clears our body of toxins and produces most of the carrier proteins in our blood....
In addition to the classic stress response in our bodies – an acute reaction that gradually abates when the threat passes – our bodies appear to have a separate mechanism that deals only with chronic stress. New Weizmann Institute of Science findings, recently...