Research in Focus

April 23, 2025

Wake-Up Call for Dormant Cancer

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have revealed how breast cancer cells enter a state of dormancy, remaining undetected for years, and why they suddenly wake up and metastasize....

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April 22, 2025

Beyond Words

Weizmann Institute researchers have revealed that the melody of spoken English functions as a distinct language, with a vocabulary and rules of syntax.  The findings lay the foundation for an...

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April 11, 2025

The Master Switch That Can Turn Immune Cells into Cancer Eradicators

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have identified a gene that reprograms macrophages into cancer-promoting cells — and show how to switch it off. To grow, cancer tumours must...

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April 2, 2025

All embroidery colours

AI-based technology developed in Dr Liat Keren’s lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science has shown it enables an unprecedented view of processes in body tissues. Artificial intelligence systems are...

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March 28, 2025

Getting Cancer to Expose Itself

Researchers from Professor Yardena Samuels’s lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science have manipulated cancer cells into making themselves visible to the immune system, creating a new approach that gives...

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March 24, 2025

They’d Rather Die: The Lesson That Male Roundworms Refuse to Learn

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have found that male roundworms do not learn from experience as well as females do – and discovered the neural receptor responsible, which...

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March 14, 2025

Matter at the Crossroads

A new Weizmann Institute method reveals how lasers can instantly alter the properties of matter. Instantly turning a material from opaque to transparent, or from a conductor to an insulator,...

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March 6, 2025

New Immune Mechanism Revealed in the Cellular Trash

A Weizmann Institute of Science study about a newly discovered immune mechanism holds promise in light of the growing resistance to antibiotics. Much like humans generate mountains of garbage, our...

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February 19, 2025

A Broken Heart: Two Types of Scars, Two Paths to Healing

A collaborative study from the Weizmann Institute of Research has revealed two kinds of scarring, dubbed hot and cold, in injured heart tissue, suggesting that treatments must take the type...

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February 14, 2025

Seeding the Passion

A plant sanctuary established in the Weizmann Institute greenhouses holds valuable lessons for survival and helps to instil a love for plant conservation. When PhD student Gal Raviv thought of...

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February 14, 2025

Training Future Physician-Scientists: The Weizmann Institute Receives Approval for a New Medical School

The Weizmann Institute of Science is bridging the gap between today’s science and tomorrow’s medicine through a newly approved study program. Whether it’s artificial intelligence, computational biology or medical engineering,...

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February 7, 2025

The Short and the Long of Protein Tails

Without their tails, thousands of proteins would be unable to fulfil their vital roles, and new Weizmann research shows that changes to these tails can cause rare genetic diseases. The...

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January 21, 2025

We Know What You Ate: Detailed Protein Activity Maps Assess Intestinal Health

A new Weizmann Institute study has identified all of the proteins in a stool sample – those from the microbiome, the human body and food – revealing the hidden secrets...

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January 12, 2025

On the Way to Building Better Batteries

Weizmann researchers have untangled the tiny strands of lithium that develop inside rechargeable batteries to limit their use to pose a serious fire hazard. When we plug in our cell...

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December 27, 2024

Ants vs Humans: Putting Group Smarts to the Test

In a new Weizmann Institute of Science experiment just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), cooperation was shown to work out better for ants than...

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November 26, 2024

Shedding Light on the Dark Hours

Weizmann researchers have discovered why the wee hours of the day can be especially dangerous to our health. Why do asthma, heart attacks and many other health conditions tend to...

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November 19, 2024

Grabbing a Model by the Throat

Modelling a tiny worm’s feeding process at the Weizmann Institute of Science has revealed the power of mathematics and computer science when exploring the complexity of biological organisms. The throat...

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November 5, 2024

Burning Cancer’s Bridges

A newly developed antibody-based treatment for the most aggressive type of breast cancer could also be used to treat many other cancers new Weizmann Institute of Science research shows. “Build...

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October 29, 2024

Crystalizing Our Comprehension of Malaria

A definitive atomic structure of heme crystals, which are made by malaria parasites, could lead to better antimalarial drugs a new Weizmann study has revealed. Professor Leslie Leiserowitz first became intrigued by...

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October 23, 2024

Unclogging the Immune System

Weizmann Institute researchers have revealed how aging cells evade our immune systems and propose developing an innovative treatment for age-related diseases and chronic inflammation. Whenever a sink overflows, the flooding...

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