Pioneers in research that has led to better health and medicine world-wide, Weizmann has a long list of achievements.
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...
Despite decades of malaria research, the disease still afflicts hundreds of millions and kills around half a million people each year – most being children in tropical regions. Part of the problem is that the malaria parasite is a shape-shifter, making it hard to...
One of the living body's mysteries is the movement of cells – not just in the blood, but through cellular and other barriers. New research in the Weizmann Institute of Science now sheds light on the subject, especially on the movement of immune cells – white blood...
Viruses may be stealthy invaders, but a study reported in Nature from the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals a new, chatty side of some: For the first time, viruses have been found communicating with one another. This communication – short 'posts' left for kin and...
Drug cocktails, such as those to treat cancer, like the alcoholic versions served at your local bar, are best when the proper ingredients are mixed in the right proportions. And like the cocktails we normally drink, the combination of ingredients can be better than...
Following a successful diet, many people are dismayed to find their weight rebounding – an all-too-common phenomenon termed 'recurrent' or 'yo-yo' obesity. Worse still, the vast majority of recurrently obese individuals not only rebound to their pre-dieting weight but...
New Weizmann Institute of Science research just published in Cell Metabolism and reported in the Times of Israel plus other media, has found that changes in surrounding oxygen levels can reset circadian clocks of mice. If confirmed in humans, the research could help...
Weizmann Institute scientists have developed a new method for deciphering ‘epigenetic tags’ which are coded instructions that determine cellular fate. Recently reported in Nature Biotechnology, the method is unlocking the secrets of how cells with the same genes...
New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science on mutations of the protein p53 - which when itself is a tumour suppressor, but when mutated aids cancer growth - indicates it can be “re-educated” to behave normally. In all p53 holds the life of a cell in its hand...
Weizmann Institute scientists have revealed how a molecule in the mouse brain can regulate social behaviour. Reported in Nature Neuroscience, the research suggests that a molecule involved in regulating stress in the brain may help determine how willing we are to...