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...
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...
Profiling COVID-19
A research team at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Israel Institute for Biological Research, in Ness Ziona, Israel, has a new approach to understanding the COVID-19 virus that may...
Which Came First? Amino acids or proteins?
What did the very first proteins that appeared on Earth around 3.7 billion years ago look like? Now an experiment in recreating primordial proteins solves a long-standing riddle. Professor Dan...
RNA ‘Specialists’ Activate Nerve Regeneration
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have identified a genetic ‘switch’ that is only active when nerves are injured – recently reported in Molecular Cell. Genes that encode proteins...
A Rulebook for Living Cells
New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science and recently published in Nature Communications has delved into the process by which small sequences of RNA – microRNAs – regulate the long...