Feature Stories

Recipients of the Institute’s award for women postdocs met with Prof. Varda Rotter and philanthropic supporters to discuss science, work-life balance, and how the award reinforces the importance of encouraging talented female scientists.

May 08, 2012

May is Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month. Learn what the Weizmann Institute is doing to fight the most common form of cancer.

May 03, 2012

A Weizmann team developed a photodynamic therapy that uses light to activate cancer-killing drugs and destroy cancer cells. The method was found to be efficient in curing melanoma with a success rate of 85 percent.

May 01, 2012

Prof. Avri Ben-Ze’ev has long studied the role of a gene called beta-catenin in various cancers, including identifying Nr-CAM, which is unleashed by beta-catenin’s signaling. Not previously known to play a role in cancer, Nr-CAM is dramatically elevated in colon cancer and melanoma cells.

April 30, 2012

Prof. Michel Revel of the Department of Molecular Genetics isolated interleukin-6, or IL-6, an immune system protein that can also play a role in cancer treatment.

April 30, 2012

Since its inception, the Weizmann Institute has recognized the importance of a science-literate public. Today, its innovative programs are providing science education to children of all abilities, as well as to communities throughout Israel.

March 28, 2012

Understanding the details of ovulation is key to developing fertility treatments. Now, after baffling scientists for decades, a major mystery concerning an early step in the ovulation process has been solved.

February 22, 2012

A group of high-school students in the Bronx uses the interactive website Proteopedia—developed by Prof. Joel Sussman and colleagues at Weizmann—to investigate proteins and other biological macromolecules, with real scientific results.

February 21, 2012

New research by the Weizmann Institute’s Dr. Ilan Koren and colleagues, including at NASA, indicates that the effects of human activity on the atmosphere are apparently leading to faster, heavier rain, which is more likely to be destructive.

February 16, 2012