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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 up and metastasize

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Beyond Words

21.04.2025

Robotics and Machine Learning, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Study reveals the hidden musical grammar of natural speech

“Bridges of Understanding and Innovation”

“Bridges of Understanding and Innovation”

10.04.2025

Benefiting Humanity

African physicians and students joined Weizmann Institute labs, storming the frontiers of science. Meet the first participants in the new Bridges of Science Program

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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 that gives hope to patients with previously...

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They’d Rather Die: The Lesson That Male Roundworms Refuse to Learn

20.03.2025

Brain & Behavior, Evolution and Development

Researchers found that male worms do not learn from experience as well as females do – and discovered the neural receptor responsible, which also exists in humans

Dr. Omer Kneller (left) and Chen Mor direct a laser beam before it enters the experimental setup. The experiment required a powerful laser beam that could produce exceptionally short, attosecond light pulses. Photo: Noa Yaffe

Matter at the Crossroads

13.03.2025

Lasers & Optics, Nano Physics, Particle Physics, Quantum Physics

A new Weizmann Institute method reveals how lasers can instantly alter the properties of matter

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New Immune Mechanism Revealed in the Cellular Trash

05.03.2025

Personalized Medicine, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

The discovery holds promise in light of the growing resistance to antibiotics

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When Proteins Go on Strike

27.02.2025

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

Weizmann Institute researchers forced thousands of yeast proteins to go on a surprise strike – and uncovered their previously unknown roles in some of life’s most basic processes

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Wake-Up Call for Dormant Cancer

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