From pursuing an impossible dream to uncovering one of the cell’s best-kept secrets and advancing the design of improved antibiotics, these were just some of the achievements of Professor Ada Yonath. Professor Yonath, laureate of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and...
By Professor Alon Chen, neuroscientist and president of the Weizmann Institute of Science – published in Nature, Vol 643, p306, 10 July 2025 A little before 3 a.m. on 15 June, two Iranian missiles hit the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. We consider...
The Weizmann Institute of Science is switching to the use of only green electricity and is becoming an almost fully renewable energy campus – alongside making sustainability and climate change a central theme of its research efforts. This shift brings many benefits,...
The Weizmann Institute of Science has launched a new scholarship in partnership with the General Sir John Monash Foundation, with applications now open and closing on 14 July 2023. The Weizmann-Monash Scholarship seeks applications from excellent Australian science...
Mysterious macrophages, found to rapidly digest dying B cells, may hold clues to future treatments of autoimmune disorders new Weizmann research shows. Parents tell their children to eat all the food on their plate, down to the last crumb. Certain cells within our...
Weizmann Australia is pleased to share the Weizmann Institute of Science's first virtual Annual Impact Report. The report, which encompasses an overview of that which took place in 2022, features an introduction from President Professor Alon Chen, information covering...
Congratulations are due to Weizmann 2019 Bessie F. International Summer School Graduate, Sai Campbell, who was just awarded an Australia-at-Large Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford for the Territories. Each year, nine Rhodes Scholarships are available for...
Weizmann Institute scientists have revealed how gigantic cyclones remain stable at both of Jupiter’s poles. Until recently, before NASA’s Juno space probe entered its orbit around the planet Jupiter, no one knew that powerful cyclones, approximately the size of...
Fragrances – promising mystery, intrigue and forbidden thrills – are blended by master perfumers, their recipes kept secret. In a new study on the sense of smell, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have managed to strip much of the mystery, even from complex...
New collaborative research from the United States and the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that micro cold traps near the Moon’s poles could contain a ready supply of water ice. Ice has already been detected in difficult-to-reach spots at the bottoms of large, deep...
Our ancestors not only knew how to use fire, they also developed sophisticated technologies for making tools. Weizmann Institute of Science research, recently published in Nature Human Behaviour, suggest that early humans may have had a good understanding of the...
Pre-clinical studies at the Weizmann Institute of Research suggest a protein called Agrin could limit scarring and promote natural repair mechanisms after a heart attack. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the world, surpassing all cancers combined....
A group at the Weizmann Institute of Science has demonstrated the production of protein assembly lines on a silicon chip. Scientists searching for better diagnostic tests, drugs or vaccines against a virus must all begin by deciphering the structure of that virus....
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...
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...
Two South Korean concerns have committed to investing $12 million in spin-out companies incorporated by Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., the technology transfer arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science. The first investment, in the amount of $2 million, is from...
The Weizmann Institute of Science’s Professor Rony Paz suggests our brains are like modern washing machines – evolved to have the latest sophisticated programming, but more vulnerable to breakdown and prone to develop costly disorders. He and a group of researchers...
As Cassini - one of the more successful planetary missions, orbiting and returning information on Saturn and its moons - reached its final act, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers took part in the last phase of the 20-year mission. Grand Finale was the official...
If only we could keep our bodies young, healthy and energetic, even as we attain the wisdom of our years. But now new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests this dream could be at least partly obtainable in the future when it discovered that by aiding...
An Israeli-German mission that includes the Weizmann Institute of Science, which plans to launch a formation of ten tiny satellites that use medically-inspired CT (computed tomography) algorithms to answer climate questions, has won a €14 million European Research...
The Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics has only been open for 16 months, but statistics from the Australian-Israeli medical research joint venture show it is already a hive of activity. Guests at an information night at the Darlinghurst based centre in late...
According to some estimates, up to one in three people around the world may experience severe anxiety in their lifetime. In a study recently published in Cell Reports, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have revealed a previously unknown mechanism...
Cancer arises when cells lose control. Deciphering the ‘blueprint’ of cancer cells – outlining how cancer cells hijack specific pathways for uncontrolled proliferation – will lead to more efficient ways to fight it. Joint effort of scientists from the Weizmann...
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...