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Founded in 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science develops philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and advances its mission of science for the benefit of humanity.
Sleep Review reports on Weizmann’s “innovative method for bolstering memory processes in the brain during sleep,” which may help with memory issues after brain injuries or treat PTSD.
June 29, 2020
A CBS 60 Minutes report on probiotics featured Profs. Eran Segal and Eran Elinav talking about their research on the gut microbiome and the effectiveness of probiotics.
June 28, 2020
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 15, 2020—During the pandemic lockdown, as couples have been forced to spend days and weeks in one another’s company, some have found their love renewed while others are on their way to divorce court. Oxytocin, a peptide produced in the brain, is complicated in that way...
June 15, 2020
Just as COVID-19 is still advancing, so is the research of Weizmann Institute scientists as they develop ways to identify, predict, treat, and prevent the illness. One particularly innovative researcher is Prof. Noam Sobel.
A neurobiologist who is a world leader in olfaction research, Prof. Sobel works in the Weizmann tradition of following his curiosity as he harnesses the sense of smell to fight COVID. His previous studies have shown that our olfactory system has powers that many of us would never have imagined; he has used the sense of smell – our most ancient sense – to quantify the smell of fear; shed light on social miscues in autism and diagnose the condition; help locked-in, vegetative patients communicate; reveal subconscious reactions to the opposite sex; and much more.
CTECH reports on the establishment of the CRISPR-IL initiative, in which leading institutions – including Weizmann – will integrate AI and CRISPR technologies to advance genome editing tools.
June 03, 2020
Prof. Uri Alon’s lab created a mathematical model demonstrating that autoimmune diseases are caused by “overzealous” immune cells, reports The Times of Israel.
May 26, 2020
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.
May 19, 2020
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.
April 30, 2020
Determining whether people in a vegetative state are conscious has long been a serious challenge. Now, as STAT reports, Prof. Noam Sobel’s team has developed a simple “sniff test” that can even predict likelihood of awakening.
April 29, 2020
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