• About Us
    • Overview
    • Education
    • Mission & History
    • Board of Directors
    • The Campus
    • Careers
  • Our Achievements
    • Overview
    • Cancer
    • Technology
    • Education
    • Our Planet
    • Health & Medicine
    • Physical World
  • Get Involved
    • Overview
    • Partners in Science
    • Estate & Planned Giving
    • Attend an Event
    • Gift Opportunities
  • News & Media
    • Overview
    • News & Media Archive
    • Coronavirus
    • Feature Stories
    • News Releases
    • In The News
    • Video Gallery
    • Ad Campaigns
    • Celebrating Great Minds
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Donate
Donate
Donate
About Us tri
About Us Overview
  • Education
  • Mission & History
  • Board of Directors
  • The Campus
  • Careers
About Us

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.

Our Achievements tri
Our Achievements Overview
  • Cancer
  • Technology
  • Education
  • Our Planet
  • Health & Medicine
  • Physical World
Our Achievements

The Weizmann Institute’s fundamental research has led to discoveries and applications with a major impact on the scientific community and on the quality of life for millions worldwide.

Get Involved tri
Get Involved Overview
  • Partners in Science
  • Estate & Planned Giving
  • Attend an Event
  • Gift Opportunities
Get Involved

Join a community of dedicated people who share the Weizmann Institute’s commitment to shaping a better world through science.

News & Media tri
News & Media Overview
  • News & Media Archive
  • Coronavirus
  • Feature Stories
  • News Releases
  • In The News
  • Video Gallery
  • Ad Campaigns
  • Celebrating Great Minds
News & Media

Learn about the Weizmann Institute’s latest groundbreaking discoveries and the American Committee’s activities across the country.

Blog tri
  • The Curiosity Review
Blog

Popular science for the curious-minded: The Curiosity Review brings discovery to life.

Contact

Search Results

  • SEARCH BY KEYWORD
  • SEARCH BY TAG
View Articles by Tag:
  • View Articles by Tag
  • Algorithims (6)
  • Alternative energy (27)
  • Alzheimers (44)
  • Archaeology (37)
  • Artificial intelligence (20)
  • Astrophysics (108)
  • Autism (22)
  • Awards (119)
  • Bacteria (107)
  • Behavior (9)
  • Biochemistry (101)
  • Biofuel (7)
  • Biology (309)
  • Biomolecular sciences (7)
  • Blood (43)
  • Brain (175)
  • Cancer (163)
  • Cancer treatment (127)
  • Central nervous system (9)
  • Chemistry (78)
  • Children (7)
  • Circadian clock (1)
  • Climate change (73)
  • Clinical trials (40)
  • Collaborations (19)
  • Community (279)
  • Computers (73)
  • Copaxone (12)
  • Coronavirus (7)
  • Culture (359)
  • Diabetes (32)
  • Earth (74)
  • Education (157)
  • Environment (92)
  • Enzymes (29)
  • Evolution (89)
  • Fertility (20)
  • Fungus (4)
  • Genetics (109)
  • Genomics (3)
  • Heart (5)
  • Heart disease (3)
  • Humanity (83)
  • Immune system (149)
  • Immunology (10)
  • Immunotherapy (34)
  • Inflammation (19)
  • Leadership (114)
  • Leukemia (12)
  • Materials (44)
  • Mathematics (62)
  • Medicine (84)
  • Memory (39)
  • Mental health (58)
  • Metabolism (51)
  • Microbiology (2)
  • Microbiome (10)
  • Molecular cell biology (9)
  • Molecular genetics (61)
  • Multiple sclerosis (12)
  • Nanoscience (33)
  • Nature (4)
  • Neurobiology (2)
  • Neuroscience (207)
  • Nutrition (72)
  • Optics (34)
  • Organs (11)
  • Parkinsons (11)
  • Personalized medicine (5)
  • Philanthropy (148)
  • Physics (139)
  • Plants (56)
  • Proteins (96)
  • Quantum computer (3)
  • Quantum physics (2)
  • Quantum theory (34)
  • Robots (8)
  • Security (21)
  • Senses (115)
  • Sensors (8)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Solar power (19)
  • Space (110)
  • Stem cells (49)
  • Technology (206)
  • Vaccine (40)
  • Virus (135)
  • Water (40)
  • Weather (1)
  • Women (115)
  • World hunger (17)
Filter by Time:
  • All
  • Past Day
  • Past Week
  • Past Month
  • Past Year
  • Past Three Years
Clear Filters

108 results for Genetics

Repairing DNA, Fighting Cancer
Repairing DNA, Fighting Cancer

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/repairing-dna-fighting-cancer/

Sep 17, 2018... Prof. Zvi Livneh
Our genetic material – DNA – is under constant assault. It is damaged every day by external forces like sunlight, radiation, tobacco smoke, air pollution, and food additives, and internal ones like waste products left over from the body’s metabolic processes.
“The DNA of each cell in your body is damaged about 50,000 times each day,” says Prof. Zvi Livneh. “That’s a massive attack.”

TAGS: Genetics, Cancer, Biology, Cancer treatment, Enzymes

Gene Editing Takes on New Roles
Gene Editing Takes on New Roles

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/gene-editing-takes-on-new-roles/

Dec 15, 2016... Combing CRISPR with the fine resolution of single-cell RNA sequencing gives researchers new means of controlling cell activities
What combinations of mutations help cancer cells survive? Which cells in the brain are involved in the onset of Alzheimer’s? How do immune cells conduct their convoluted decision-making processes? Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now combined two powerful research tools – CRISPR gene editing and single-cell genomic profiling – in a method that may finally help provide answers to these questions and many more.

TAGS: Genetics, Biology, Mathematics

The Next Agricultural Revolution is Here
The Next Agricultural Revolution is Here

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/the-next-agricultural-revolution-is-here/

Sep 19, 2019... Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Uplands Farm has a history of ground-breaking plant research and environmental activism.
As a growing population and climate change threaten food security, researchers around the world are working to overcome the challenges that threaten the dietary needs of humans and livestock. A pair of scientists is now making the case that the knowledge and tools exist to facilitate the next agricultural revolution we so desperately need.

TAGS: Genetics, Plants, Nutrition, World hunger

Weizmann Researchers and International Team Sequence Wild Strawberry Genome
Weizmann Researchers and International Team Sequence Wild Strawberry Genome

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/weizmann-researchers-and-international-team-sequence-wild-strawberry-genome/

Dec 27, 2010... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—December 27, 2010— In a collaborative effort involving 74 researchers from 38 research institutes, scientists have produced the full genome of a wild strawberry plant. The research appeared on December 26 in Nature Genetics online.
Drs. Asaph Aharoni and Avital Adato of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Department of Plant Sciences were the sole Israeli scientists participating in the project, but they made a major contribution in mapping the genes and gene families responsible for the strawberry’s flavor and aroma.

TAGS: Genetics, Plants, Humanity

An Immune System Trained to Kill Cancer
An Immune System Trained to Kill Cancer

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/an-immune-system-trained-to-kill-cancer/

Sep 13, 2011... CLOSE-UP Dr. Carl June examined re-engineered T-cells last week in his Philadelphia lab. Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times
PHILADELPHIA — A year ago, when chemotherapy stopped working against his leukemia, William Ludwig signed up to be the first patient treated in a bold experiment at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Ludwig, then 65, a retired corrections officer from Bridgeton, N.J., felt his life draining away and thought he had nothing to lose.

TAGS: Genetics, Cancer, Immune system, Virus, Immunotherapy

Science Tips, January 2007
Science Tips, January 2007

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/science-tips-january-2007/

Jan 24, 2007... Weizmann Institute Scientists Discover a Genetic Risk Factor for Smoking-linked Head and Neck Cancer
A simple blood test may be able to identify those most at risk for developing head and neck cancer as a result of smoking. This was the finding of a recent study by Prof. Zvi Livneh, Head of the Weizmann Institute’s Biological Chemistry Department, Dr. Tamar Paz-Elizur of the same department, and their research team that worked in collaboration with Dr. Rami Ben-Yosef of Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Prof. Laurence Freedman of Sheba Medical Center and Prof. Edna Schechtman of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

TAGS: Genetics, Chemistry, Cancer, Security, Proteins

Science Tips, January 2010
Science Tips, January 2010

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/science-tips-january-2010/

Jan 14, 2010... How do the visual images we experience, which have no tangible existence, arise out of physical processes in the brain? New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science provides evidence, for the first time, that an “ignition” of intense neural activity underlies the experience of seeing.
In research recently published in the journal Neuron, Prof. Rafael Malach and research student Lior Fisch of the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Neurobiology worked with a neurosurgeon, Dr. Itzhak Fried of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, a distinguished team of medical doctors from the Center, and Weizmann Institute students. They asked a group of epileptic patients who had had electrodes clinically implanted into their brains in preparation for surgery to volunteer for some perceptual awareness tasks. The subjects looked at a computer screen, which briefly presented a “target” image—a face, house, or man-made object. This image was followed by a “mask”—a meaningless picture for distraction—at different time intervals after the target image had been presented. This allowed the experimenter to control the visibility of the images—the patients sometimes recognized the targets and sometimes failed to do so. By comparing the electrode recordings to the patients’ reports of whether they had correctly recognized the image or not, the scientists were able to pinpoint what was happening—and when and where—in the brain as transitions in perceptual awareness took place.

TAGS: Genetics, Neuroscience, Plants, Biology, Senses

The Enigmatic Sphingolipid: Its Role in Genetic Disease
The Enigmatic Sphingolipid: Its Role in Genetic Disease

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/the-enigmatic-sphingolipid-its-role-in-genetic-disease/

Sep 01, 2012... Lipids are fatty substances found in every cell in our bodies. They make up the membranes that separate the cell from its surroundings and are responsible for regulating the passage of nutrients to and from the cell. One particular family of lipids — sphingolipids — fascinates Prof. Anthony (Tony) Futerman of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Department of Biological Chemistry. “Sphingolipids were discovered in the 19th century by the German biochemist Johann Thudichum, who named them after the sphinx because they were enigmatic,” says Prof. Futerman.

TAGS: Genetics, Medicine, Biochemistry, Enzymes

Making Personalized Medicine a Reality
Making Personalized Medicine a Reality

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/making-personalized-medicine-a-reality/

Nov 24, 2014... The Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine is the Weizmann Institute of Science’s first comprehensive initiative to translate genetic and molecular data into information that may one day be used for more precise, more individualized patient care.
“Personalized medicine – or ‘precision medicine,’ as it has been termed by the NIH – is a form of medicine that uses information about a person’s genes, proteins, and environment to prevent, diagnose, and treat patients,” says Dr. Berta Strulovici, the new center’s director. “In the future, this knowledge will give doctors the ability to assess medical risks and monitor and treat patients according to their specific genetic makeup and molecular phenotype.”

TAGS: Genetics, Medicine, Philanthropy, Proteins

Eat a Purple Potato If You Know What’s Good For You
Eat a Purple Potato If You Know What’s Good For You

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/eat-a-purple-potato-if-you-know-what-s-good-for-you/

Aug 23, 2017... Image via Shutterstock.com
Are you ready for violet-colored potatoes? How about orange tobacco? Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have figured out how produce betalain pigments in plants and flowers that don’t normally have them.
If you’re thinking, “Who needs violet tomatoes?” you should know that red-violet and yellow betalain pigments contain healthful antioxidant properties. They’re also the basis for natural food dyes for products such as strawberry yogurt.

TAGS: Genetics, Chemistry, Plants, Nutrition

First 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... Last
Back Next
SHARE

Our Achievements

Learn more about remarkable Weizmann Institute achievements that are enhancing and transforming our lives.

Learn More

Support Our Flagship Projects

Help us accelerate exciting initiatives in three forward-looking fields: neuroscience, physics, and artificial intelligence.

Learn More

Newsletter

Get the latest news and breakthroughs from the Weizmann Institute of Science.

About Us
  • Education
  • Mission & History
  • Board of Directors
  • The Campus
  • Careers
Our Achievements
  • Cancer
  • Technology
  • Education
  • Our Planet
  • Health & Medicine
  • Physical World
Get Involved
  • Partners in Science
  • Estate & Planned Giving
  • Attend an Event
  • Gift Opportunities
News & Media Blog: Curiosity Review Donate Now Contact Us
Privacy Policy Gift Acceptance Policy Financial Information

©2023 American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science

Charity Navigator

FOR THE FOURTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR

Platinum Transparency 2023