New Research Confirms Anxiety Affects Perception
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...
Understanding Pancreatic Cell Biology: A Key Step Towards Improved Therapy for Diabetes
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...
A Myth Busted: Bacteria and Human Cells are Balanced
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...
Understanding Drug Resistance to Improve Treatment of Infectious Disease
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,...
Epilepsy Gene Studies Open New Research Paths
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...
New Techniques to ‘See’ Changes in Protein Behaviour
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,...
Not Losing Weight? It’s Probably Not the Diet
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...
Ant Teamwork Explained
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...
Can a Sniff Test Spot Autism?
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...
Factory Waste Morphs into Clean Syngas
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,...
When Age Matters
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,...
Weizmann Scientist Stresses Value of “Eureka Moments”
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...
Imaging Study Finds Unique Brain Patterns Among Autistic
Unfortunately, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) remains a condition that presents more questions than answers. Some studies have found a lack of connection or synchronisation between different parts of the brain...
No Limits to Human Effects on Clouds
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...
Saccharin Solution?
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...
Israelis Design Artificial Cells That Make Things
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...
Israeli Research Could Be Breakthrough in Depression Treatment
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...
Not So Dumb
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...
Mapping Defenses Against HIV
The race to find a cure for AIDS, one of Earth’s most pressing epidemics for more than three decades now, is often more of a chaotic relay. Thousands of international...
Stem Cell Reprogramming Made Easier
Weizmann Institute scientists show that removing one protein from adult cells enables them to efficiently turn back the clock to a stem-cell-like state Embryonic stem cells have the enormous potential...