Drug cocktails, such as those to treat cancer, like the alcoholic versions served at your local bar, are best when the proper ingredients are mixed in the right proportions. And like the cocktails we normally drink, the combination of ingredients can be better than...
Following a successful diet, many people are dismayed to find their weight rebounding – an all-too-common phenomenon termed 'recurrent' or 'yo-yo' obesity. Worse still, the vast majority of recurrently obese individuals not only rebound to their pre-dieting weight but...
New Weizmann Institute of Science research just published in Cell Metabolism and reported in the Times of Israel plus other media, has found that changes in surrounding oxygen levels can reset circadian clocks of mice. If confirmed in humans, the research could help...
On 14 September 2016 The Korean Economic Daily e-mail interviewed Professor Daniel Zajfman, President of the Weizmann Institute of Science. This was in commemoration of Global HR Forum, held in Seoul, November 1-3, 2016. Other distinguished guests were also...
Recently we announced that ANU students Cherry Zheng and Matthew Goh had won the Trawalla Foundation–Weizmann Australia scholarship to attend the 2016 Weizmann Institute of Science International Summer Science Institute (ISSI) in Israel. They have now returned from...
New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science on mutations of the protein p53 - which when itself is a tumour suppressor, but when mutated aids cancer growth - indicates it can be “re-educated” to behave normally. In all p53 holds the life of a cell in its hand...
The Weizmann Institute of Science's Dr Yohai Kaspi is part of the Juno Science team that hopes to answer some burning questions about the largest planet in the Solar System. As reported this week in The Jerusalem Post, on Monday July 4, NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...