Life Sciences

Top: Overexpression of genes from the B2-SINE family in retinal ganglion neurons led to accelerated growth after injury. Bottom: Ganglion cells after injury without B2-SINE overexpression

Nerve Cells Learn to Grow

07.07.2025

Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Weizmann Institute scientists have discovered hundreds of molecules that promote nerve regeneration in mice – and may even encourage growth in brain...

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A New Blood Test May Detect Leukemia Risk and Replace Bone Marrow Sampling

27.06.2025

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biochemistry, Personalized Medicine, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity, Biotechnology, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

Just days after their labs were damaged in the Iranian attack, Profs. Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay publish a study expected to advance the field of...

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Sensing Fat

29.05.2025

Nutrition, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics

Weizmann Institute researchers reveal that the nervous system can sense fat tissue and that blocking this ability protects mice from metabolic...

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Food: Friend, Not Foe – New Study Explains Why

27.05.2025

Nutrition, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Weizmann Institute researchers reveal the cellular network behind oral tolerance, the immune mechanism that enables us to eat food safely

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Whisker Whisperers

15.05.2025

Robotics and Machine Learning, Brain & Behavior

Research reveals how mouse whiskers can “hear” the world

Fat cells

Slimming with Mitch

05.05.2025

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

Blocking Mitch, an energy-control protein, prevents fat accumulation in human cells

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Wake-Up Call for Dormant Cancer

22.04.2025

Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

Weizmann Institute researchers reveal how breast cancer cells enter a state of dormancy, remaining undetected for years, and why they suddenly wake...

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The Master Switch Turning Immune Cells into Cancer Eradicators

10.04.2025

Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

Researchers in Prof. Ido Amit’s lab identify a gene that reprograms macrophages into cancer-promoting cells — and show how to switch it off

Multiple Proteins Viewed as Never Before

Multiple Proteins Viewed as Never Before

01.04.2025

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Biotechnology, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

An AI-based method developed at Weizmann can exponentially increase the number of proteins imaged in tissues

Getting Cancer to Unmask Itself

Getting Cancer to Unmask Itself

27.03.2025

Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Researchers from Prof. Yardena Samuels’s lab manipulated cancer cells into making themselves visible to the immune system, creating a new approach...

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Top: Overexpression of genes from the B2-SINE family in retinal ganglion neurons led to accelerated growth after injury. Bottom: Ganglion cells after injury without B2-SINE overexpression

Nerve Cells Learn to Grow

A New Blood Test May Detect Leukemia Risk and Replace Bone Marrow Sampling

“Science Can Change Lives, Spark Revolutions and Perhaps Even Heal the World”

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A New Blood Test May Detect Leukemia Risk and Replace Bone Marrow Sampling

“Science Can Change Lives, Spark Revolutions and Perhaps Even Heal the World”

Food: Friend, Not Foe – New Study Explains Why