News Releases
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Fighting Cancer
Cells Inside Cells: The Bacteria That Live in Cancer Cells
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 2, 2020—Cancer cells are comfy havens for bacteria. That conclusion arises from a rigorous study of over 1,000 tumor samples of different human cancers.
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Improving Health & Medicine
Paying the Price of Protection
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—May 19, 2020—Is the wanton killing of cells in autoimmune disease a case of mistaken identity, or does it arise from an important physiological service? The first is the commonly accepted view – that autoimmune attack is a sort of mistake.
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Exploring the Physical World
NASA’s Next Destination?
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—May 14, 2020—An incredibly accurate clock planned by the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Israeli Space Agency, and an Israeli company could be on its way to Neptune’s largest moon in 2026.
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Improving Health & Medicine
Weizmann Institute Scientists Develop “Sniff Test” That Predicts Recovery of Consciousness in Brain-Injured Patients
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 30, 2020—If an unconscious person responds to smell through a slight change in their nasal airflow pattern, they are likely to regain consciousness. This is the conclusion from a new study conducted by Weizmann Institute scientists and colleagues at Israel’s Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital.
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Coronavirus
The Israel Institute for Biological Research and the Weizmann Institute of Science Have Signed a Memorandum of Understanding to Collaborate in the Fight Against Coronavirus
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 20, 2020—The Israel Institute for Biological Research and the Weizmann Institute of Science will join efforts in advancing research designed to develop ways to combat the coronavirus.
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Improving Health & Medicine
The Self-Synthesizing Ribosome
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 20, 2020—As the cell’s protein factory, the ribosome is the only natural machine that manufactures its own parts. That’s why understanding how the machine itself is made could unlock the door to everything from understanding how life develops to designing new methods of drug production.
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Coronavirus
Mapping Corona in Stealth Mode
Weizmann Institute scientists have developed a method for monitoring, identifying, and predicting geographical clusters in which the coronavirus is prevalent and will likely spread, by tracking symptoms throughout the Israeli public…
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Coronavirus
In COVID-19, Why Does Vulnerability Rise With Age?
The world medical community is gasping for additional ventilators—machines that move air in and out of the lungs of COVID-19 patients who are having trouble breathing on their own.
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Coronavirus
Recovered COVID-19 Patients to the Rescue
Dr. Ziv Shulman believes that the blood of coronavirus patients who have fully recovered from the disease may contain a hidden blueprint for building what the world needs: a molecule that can form the basis of new strategies for treating individual patients
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Coronavirus
Coronavirus Testing Begins at the Weizmann Institute of Science
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 12, 2020—Following an agreement signed this morning between Israel’s Ministry of Health and the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Institute started conducting tests today diagnose coronavirus.
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Coronavirus
Self-Monitoring Your Sense of Smell May Help Detect Coronavirus
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 2, 2020—Along with fever, cough, and shortness of breath, many COVID-19 patients report a temporary loss of sense of smell. It appears that olfactory loss is significantly greater in coronavirus patients compared to the loss often experienced during a cold and, less commonly, in influenza (non-COVID-19) patients.
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Coronavirus
Coronavirus by the Numbers
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—March 31, 2020—Numerical data sometimes reveal facts that are otherwise concealed within an onslaught of information from an overwhelming number of sources.
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Coronavirus
Intermittent Lockdown
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—March 31, 2020—Think of dieting. You can fast for two months and lose weight, but you will probably die. Even if you survive, you will quickly gain weight again. Similarly, a two-month lockdown will suppress the coronavirus, but it will kill the economy. Lockdown will push hundreds of millions of people globally into unemployment and poverty.
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Coronavirus
How Do Healthy Cells Defend Themselves Against a Virus?
In fighting a virus, our immune system adopts different strategies depending on the threat, but how? Prof. Ido Amit and colleagues in Italy have found a protein that issues instructions for mounting an anti-viral defense.
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Coronavirus
Towards a Drug Against COVID-19
An initiative co-led by Dr. Nir London has brought together drug-development experts – from academia in four countries to biotech and contract research organizations to specialized software companies – to accelerate development of a COVID-19 treatment.
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Coronavirus
Two Steps Ahead of the Coronavirus
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—March 22, 2020—A method of predicting the coronavirus spread – pioneered and developed by Weizmann Institute scientists – may enable authorities to focus efforts on areas where an outbreak is anticipated and relieve measures taken in others. Several countries, including the United States, are adopting the new method
