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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 future of humanity.
Oct 27, 2020... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—October 27, 2020—Acute liver failure is a devastating, rapidly progressing disease that results in death in 80% of cases, unless an emergency li ... Read more
Oct 27, 2020... A new study from the Weizmann Institute of Science, published in Nature Medicine, has found new subsets of cells and signals from the gut microbiome and the dis ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/bacteria-may-aid-anti-cancer-immune-response/
Mar 17, 2021... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—March 17, 2021—Cancer immunotherapy may get a boost from an unexpected direction: bacteria residing within tumor cells. In a new study published ... Read more
Mar 17, 2021... Cancer cells present bacterial peptides on the outside of their walls, marking them as a foreign element to the body’s immune system, Weizmann Institute scienti ... Read more
Dec 08, 2021... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—December 8, 2021—Cigarette smoking, practiced by over a billion people worldwide, is considered a leading cause of disease, accounting for over ... Read more
Jun 27, 2022... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 27, 2022— Of all the fungi that live in the human body, the most infamous is probably the yeast Candida. This distant cousin of baker’s yea ... Read more
Aug 04, 2022... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—August 4, 2022—The myriads of microbes in our gut, collectively termed the microbiome, are considered important to our health, but they can also ... Read more
Sep 29, 2022... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—September 29, 2022—Cancer tumors contain multiple species of fungi that differ per tumor type, according to a large study led by researchers at ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/some-not-so-sweet-news-about-sugar-substitutes/
Sep 15, 2022...
If you take your coffee with Splenda or drink a diet soda at lunch, you might be interested in the Weizmann Institute’s new findings on sugar substitutes.
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Sep 29, 2022... Look up an image of a tumor on Google, and you’ll probably end up with a brightly colored cluster of cancer cells on a drab background of healthy tissue. A tumo ... Read more
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