New research in mice from the Weizmann Institute of Science may help explain how viral infection in pregnancy raises the risk of autism and schizophrenia in the child. Recently published in Science and reported in the Jewish Post and elsewhere, disrupted foetal immune...
Every two years the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) gathers together its key international supporters to celebrate the Institute’s achievements and mark its global scientific impact to the benefit of humanity. This year the Inspiring Connections Global Gathering...
Weizmann Institute of Science scientists have engineered bacteria that can create sugar from the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2). Recently reported in Chem Europe the researchers posed the question: Is it possible to reprogram an organism that is found higher in...
The Weizmann Institute of Science and its commercial arm - Yeda Research and Development - has announced they have entered into a multi-year arrangement with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer which will provide important extra resources to facilitate more discoveries. The...
Two excellent candidates have won the recent Trawalla Foundation–Weizmann Australia scholarship to attend the 2016 Weizmann Institute of Science International Summer Science Institute (ISSI) in Israel. They are high school graduates Cherry Zheng and Matthew Goh, both...
A molecular invisible ink is now available. Called a molecular-scale messaging sensor (m-SMS), this is part of a secure, chemically based system designed to transmit and reveal secret messages. Created by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers, this unique new...
At some point in our lives we have all had to consciously use our brains to learn at school, university and work – dreaming of how great it would be to do it subconsciously. Now Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have shown that in the future this could be...
How does stress, which can cause our bodies to divert resources from non-essential functions, affect the basic exchange of materials that underlie our everyday life? Weizmann Institute of Science researchers investigated this question by looking at a receptor in the...
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 soon. The novel therapy is delivered by injection and activated using...
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 new venture – to be called the Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular...
A new drug recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat a specific type of lung cancer, is the third cancer drug on the market that uses a Weizmann Institute of Science patent. This patent is designed to block a receptor on the surface of cells...
Anxiety effects a person’s perception, so they see the world and respond to stimuli differently, new Weizmann Institute of Science research reveals. Recently in the news, the scientific study was initially reported in the Cell Press Journal Current Biology and may...
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 of cultural, culinary and artistic innovation in Tel Aviv, as well as a...
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 particular genes is complex and involves a new class of molecules called “micro Ribonucleic Acids”...
The breakthrough cancer therapy, currently making headlines for a United States study of leukaemia patients, has its origins at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Using genetically modified T-cells from the blood, the team at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer...
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 Cell, has recalculated this to reveal the ratio is actually nearer 1:1. This myth...
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, collaborative researchers at Flinders University, Australia and...
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 Research (WIS) project was funded for two years by Weizmann Australia* to...
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, proteins must be studied not in a...
Your weight loss diet may be failing, not because you are doing something wrong, but because your body’s metabolism is not responding as anticipated. Finally the evidence is here, revealed by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers, about something many have found...
Please click here to read more about our upcoming symposium, featuring 10 visiting Weizmann Institute scientists presenting together with their Australasian colleagues.
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 the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has the answer, especially in relation to ant food transportation. Published in...
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 Current Biology, the research shows that people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) respond...
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 Netherlands, known as CWTS. This ranking puts Weizmann as the only scientific...