Improving the Recipe for Gene Therapy
An innovative treatment for Gaucher disease has produced promising results in mice, giving hope to patients after decades of research. Gregory and Deborah Macres from California lost their son, Gregory,...
Uncrackable: Scorpions and Sponges Inspire Sustainable Design
A Weizmann Institute study of super-tough organisms reveals strategies for creating more sustainable, resilient human-made materials. Humans are by no means alone in the search for more sustainable materials. Nature,...
Hunting Down Giant Viruses That Attack Tiny Algae
A mysterious menace lurks in the oceans – threatening algal blooms. Now, Weizmann Institute researchers have developed a new way to track the culprit – giant viruses – and identify...
Couples Therapy
A new Weizmann Institute of Science method is providing an unprecedented glimpse into the relationship between bacteria and their host cells. Like people, bacteria have their preferences when it comes...
A Secret Recipe for Colorful and Versatile Animal Crystals
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have discovered how crystals are formed in the animal kingdom and show that two simple molecules can create a dizzying array of complex biological characteristics....
Stormy Findings and Hot Discoveries
How are humans affecting the Northern Hemisphere’s wind patterns? A new Weizmann Institute of Science study shows how. The summer of 2024 was the hottest on record and was unfortunately...
Into the Light
Will a better understanding of photosynthesis help us grow plants under artificial light? New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science is looking to answer this question. Photosynthesis, the process...
Both Faster and Stronger
A new Weizmann Institute of Science approach promises to advance cancer immunotherapy by increasing the proliferation rate of cancer-targeting immune cells while retaining their ability to kill cancer cells. Cellular...
New Circuit Made of DNA Has Everything Wired In
New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science has resulted in a new miniature genetic circuit that could lead to the next phase in bio-nanotechnology and artificial cell design. Weizmann...
Peeling Back the Layers of Brain Tumours
Weizmann Insitute scientists have mapped common types of brain tumours at unprecedented resolution – and identified a possible reason why some patients fail to respond to a new drug. The...
The Weizmann Institute of Science Ranked among the World’s Top Ten Academic Institutions
Research quality at the Weizmann Insitute of science is now placed sixth in the world in biomedical sciences – and tenth across research fields overall – by the 2024 Leiden...
A Discovery to Set Your Heart a-Knocking
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have found how the multiple sclerosis drug – Copaxone – protects the heart muscle and improves its function after a heart attack. In the late...
Surprising New Material Gets the Lead Out
A new Weizmann Institute of Science ceramic could replace lead-based electronic components. Produced in the Weizmann lab or Professor Igor Lubomirsky’s this material seems too good to be true. It belongs...
When an Ion Met an Atom
The creation of a strange, ‘long-distance’ molecule revealed in a recent physics experiment at the Weizmann Institute of Science sheds light on chemical reactions taking place near absolute zero. When...
Cactus Dreams: Revealing the Secrets of Mescaline Making
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science are tackling the thorny issue of securing a sustainable source of the psychedelic – Mescaline – for drug development, with a new study...
Sticking a Pin in Cancer
A new cellular mechanism for identifying unravelled proteins, discovered by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and recently published in Molecular Cell, may serve as a target for cancer...
Navigating the Digestive Tract
A comprehensive gene expression atlas of the human small intestine developed by the Weizmann Institute of Science, and just reported in Nature, has uncovered the secrets of nutrient absorption and...
Finding Immune Cells under Our Very Noses
New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science – just published in Nature – shows that antibody-producing cells discovered inside the nasal conchae may help to develop new nasal vaccinations and...
Catch a Virus by Its Tail
A bacterial immune system that alters the tails of phages – a parasitic virus that reproduces itself in bacteria – might help clarify an immunity mechanism in humans, a new...
Sperm Welcome – But Their Mitochondria Must Go
Why do we inherit only maternal mitochondria? A new Weizmann Institute of Science study shows how the paternal versions are deliberately destroyed. Within minutes of fertilisation, the egg of a...