Toward a Treatment for Huntington’s Disease
Weizmann Institute of Science scientists have discovered two small molecules that can cross the blood-brain barrier in mice, slowing and even reversing the effects of Huntington’s, which is incurable. The...
There’s a New Hypothesis on Your Hypophysis
A new Weizmann Institute of Science study challenges an old dogma regarding the pituitary gland’s embryonic origins and may lead to new insights into growth hormone deficiency and other pituitary...
Evolutionary Safety First
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have now called for a new kind of test to ensure evolutionary safety of future drugs. How many mutations do we need to improve our...
Tears without Fears: Sniffing Women’s Tears Reduces Aggression in Men
New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that exposure to tears activates human smell receptors and alters aggression-related circuits in the brain. All land mammals have tear glands...
Why People with Diabetes Are More Prone to Respiratory Risk
A new study from the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals how high blood sugar makes lung infections worse and the findings may lead to a strategy for reversing this susceptibility....
When Dryness Intrudes, Floods Ensue
New findings from the Weizmann Institute of Science may improve flood warnings for millions living on the Indian subcontinent. In 2018, in the Indian state of Kerala, more than 400...
Unlocking a Secret Nerve Cell Regenerator
New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals that a protein facilitating nerve cell repair in the peripheral nervous system might one day point to treatments for neurodegenerative diseases....
Traces of Trauma in the Young Brain – and How to Erase Them
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have revealed in mice how exposure to trauma in infancy alters the brain; they show that early treatment to reverse these changes is vital for...
Newly Discovered Autoimmune Disorder Disrupts Tooth Enamel Development
A new study lead by the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that celiac disease in children might be associated with sensitivity to a protein abundant in dairy products. The new...
The Solar Forest
A new Weizmann Institute study shows that building solar farms in arid regions is a far more effective way to tackle the climate crisis than planting forests. A verdant forest...
An open-access format for drug discovery is helping design medications against potential viral threats
An international crowd-sourced campaign to discover an anti-COVID-19 drug has created a blueprint for the accelerated, patent-free development of drugs to treat viral threats to humanity. The results of the...
A Select Group: Study May Bring Improved Therapy to Preselected Lung Cancer Patients
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have identified a biomarker that may one day enable a subgroup of lung cancer patients to benefit from relapse-free treatment. Non-smokers who develop...
Vive la Différence: Brain Cells of Males and Females Respond Differently to Chronic Stress
A new study in mice could pave the way to personalised therapy for depression, anxiety and other stress-related disorders known to produce different effects on men and women. Scientific excellence...
Gaining Weight? You Have a Bone to Pick with Calcium
Weizmann Institute scientists have discovered a gene that may cause weight gain in older people, regardless of their diet. When diets fail, people often blame their genes. Now scientists lend...
How B-Cell Eaters Clean Their Plates
Mysterious macrophages, found to rapidly digest dying B cells, may hold clues to future treatments of autoimmune disorders new Weizmann research shows. Parents tell their children to eat all the...
Plant Research Reaches a New High
A South African plant called a woolly umbrella is completely unrelated to the cannabis plant, yet it makes a slew of the active compounds found in cannabis – cannabinoids –...
Decades-Old Mystery of Red Blood Cell Production Finally Solved
To get life-giving oxygen into every cell, the human body produces two to three million oxygen-carrying red blood cells, or erythrocytes, each second – about one-quarter of all the new...
Across the Universe: Israeli Tech to Reach Deep Space for the First Time
The journey to Jupiter has begun. The European Space Agency’s unmanned spacecraft JUICE (short for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) recently launched (13 April) from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. JUICE’s voyage, the...
A Weizmann Masters Experience – from Australia to Israel
Can we predict our own future? For Australian scientist, Rebecca Hertzman, currently undertaking her Masters of Science in chemical biology and drug discovery at the Weizmann Institute of Science in…
Immunotherapy Drugs Step on the Gas
Sometimes anticancer antibodies press on the gas and the brakes at the same time. New research from the Weizmann Institute of Research in Israel might help them accelerate better. When...