10 May 2016 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel, Weizmann in the News
A new prostate cancer drug called Tookad®, which is currently approved in Mexico for early–stage treatment, is now undergoing advanced trials in Israel and Europe, with European approval hoped for...
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12 April 2016 | Garvan-Weizmann Partnership, Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel, Weizmann in the News
Two world-class research facilities – the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia – will unite to establish a new centre based in Sydney. The...
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1 March 2016 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
In November, Weizmann Australia organised a special ‘week of discovery’ in Israel for a group of Australian women, focusing on innovations in arts and science. The week included vivid experiences...
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25 February 2016 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
The body’s ability to turn certain genes on and off in specific cells at a precise point in time is essential to maintaining health. This fine control in regulating...
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15 February 2016 | Weizmann in Australia
For some time, the scientific world believed we had 10 times more bacteria and microbes in our bodies than human cells. But new Weizmann research, recently published in the Journal...
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11 February 2016 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Infectious disease treatments can be hugely impeded if the targeted microorganisms in the body resist important drugs like antibiotics, causing serious threat to human health. Over the past two years,...
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8 February 2016 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Following the recent discovery of an epilepsy gene called HNRNPU from a study of 500 children and adults with severe epilepsies, a joint University of Melbourne and Weizmann Institute of...
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5 February 2016 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Proteins are the molecular machines that make living things function. Understanding, measuring and visualising their structural changes as they perform biological functions are therefore imperative. However to see such changes,...
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8 September 2015 | Weizmann in Australia
Please click here to read more about our upcoming symposium, featuring 10 visiting Weizmann Institute scientists presenting together with their Australasian colleagues....
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18 August 2015 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
When observing ants in a group it is easy to see that they work as a team, but how they work has always been a question. Now new research from...
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31 July 2015 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
It could be as simple as a sniff test to detect autism early in children according to new ground breaking research from the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Recently published in...
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31 July 2015 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science is now ranked 10th in the world for quality scientific research according to the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the...
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24 April 2015 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Heavy industries generate a lot of heat and emit a lot of CO2 to the atmosphere. NewCO2Fuels turns these two streams of waste into profitable products. For millions of years,...
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8 April 2015 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
A partial human skull unearthed in 2008 in northern Israel may hold some clues as to when and where humans and Neanderthals might have interbred. The key to addressing this,...
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27 March 2015 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Ask Brian Berkowitz about the fruits of his research – say, an environmentally friendly way to remove pollutants from contaminated water – and he’ll stop you. “OK. I have to...
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11 March 2015 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Understanding how clouds affect the climate has been a difficult proposition. What controls the makeup of the low clouds that cool the atmosphere or the high ones that trap heat...
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23 September 2014 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
DIET COKE is one of science’s great miracles. Ordinary Coca-Cola relies on lashings of sugar to achieve its trademark sickly sweetness—15.9 grams per can, or about a third of the...
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22 August 2014 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Cell network mimics protein synthesis and communication of real cells, could one day be used to make products Israeli scientists have created an artificial network of cells that act like...
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4 July 2014 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Weizmann Institute team identifies molecule that creates the depression-relieving chemical Serotonin in the brain. Israeli scientists have identified a brain chemical, which was previously unknown, that could prove to be...
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27 November 2013 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
A new kind of genetic switch can target the activities of just one type of brain cell. Mysterious brain cells called microglia are starting to reveal their secrets thanks to...
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