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We at the Weizmann Institute of Science consider it our duty and privilege to help and contribute to the State and the people of Israel in coping with the global coronavirus crisis.

The Bar-Ilan University Smart Cities Center is set to begin experimenting with an autonomous minibus that can transport patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and medical equipment.

The Weizmann Institute teamed up with the Wolfson Medical Center to develop SmellTracker, an online platform that enables self-monitoring of an individual’s sense of smell to detect early signs of COVID-19.

Scientists and researchers at Israel’s top institutions are using modelling and AI to better understand the virus, how it spreads, finding a vaccine and how best to recover.

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute in collaboration with colleagues from Caltech recently employed an original research method to organize the flood of coronavirus information in an orderly framework.

While new innovations have been proposed to the Israel Innovation Authority, other already existing methods have already been re-purposed for the goal of fighting the coronavirus.

A technique developed at the Institute might keep drugs at optimum levels in the body.

Can an antiviral food additive for farmed shrimp be adapted for protecting humans against coronavirus? Very possibly, says the Technion professor and technology’s developer.

Weizmann Institute scientists present a mathematical model for an exit strategy: how to restart the economy after the crisis.

A new Northwestern University–Tel Aviv University study has revealed that subjects who experienced relatively high blood pressure during young adulthood also experienced significant declines in cognitive function and gait in midlife.

Researchers suggest unlike SARS, MERS coronavirus strains which were successfully contained during 2004 and 2018 outbreaks respectively, COVID-19 may become perennial danger.

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Staff members are at the forefront of medical technologies and innovation, task forces, methods and vaccines in the making, working to protect the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

Israeli researchers have developed a method to help identify, monitor and possibly predict future coronavirus outbreak zones that has already received worldwide attention.