Biology and Medicine
- Tel Aviv University
- July 9, 2023
This is the first time that researchers succeed in developing personalized tools for infectious diseases, which until now have only been developed for specific diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's
- Dr. Hanan Stein
- July 8, 2023
- 18 תגובות
Chapter nine from the book: "The Free Man - Evolutionary Psychology, Brain Research and Understanding the Mind"
- Prof. Amit Baumel
- July 6, 2023
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Any public service of human help, such as mental health care or care for the elderly collapses. The artificial intelligence that will take over many jobs will leave us with the thing that is perhaps most important to us, the value we find in human effort for the sake of others.
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- July 2, 2023
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
- June 30, 2023
Degeneration of the cells of the immune system in the brain may be the biological cause of depression, and there may be substances that can restore these cells - and be antidepressants
- Tel Aviv University
- June 28, 2023
According to the researchers, it is a hormone, a small signal molecule, which controls the growth of plants. The decoding may help a lot in expanding agricultural crops and dealing with the global food crisis
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
- June 28, 2023
What makes foraminifera species sensitive to heat?
- Avi Blizovsky
- June 25, 2023
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Sanofi will build a factory in virtual space that will operate during an epidemic and produce vaccines to accelerate the development of vaccines
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- June 25, 2023
A new Israeli study reveals that the desert gorse, a common plant in the country, releases a pungency that prevents many animals from eating it - but gives the bulbul birds a "medicine" that helps them digest its fruits. And: how is all this related to cancer prevention?
- Avi Blizovsky
- June 23, 2023
- One response
Geneticists have discovered a whole genome duplication event that occurred in the past in the common ancestor of sturgeons and paddlefish that may have helped them during the mass extinction 200 million years ago
- Science site The Conversation
- June 19, 2023
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- Weizmann Institute
- June 18, 2023
Forecasting dust storms is a complicated matter. A new study was able to predict storms in our region with a high level of accuracy - and thereby outline how artificial intelligence can be harnessed to understand processes in the atmosphere
- The Hebrew University
- June 15, 2023
- One response
Researchers at the Hebrew University and the Hadassah Medical Center have developed an ointment to treat the severe side effects of targeted cancer treatment and significantly improve the quality of life of patients.
- Tel Aviv University
- June 15, 2023
The research team hopes that the tools developed in this study will pave the way for the development of similar treatments for other rare diseases
- Weizmann Institute
- June 13, 2023
The origin of the mysterious macrophages, known in scientific language as Tingible Body Macrophages (TBM), is in progenitor cells of the blood system that emerge from the bone marrow and settle in the lymph nodes, where they quickly and efficiently digest the remains of antibody-producing cells of the immune system
- Avi Blizovsky
- June 5, 2023
- One response
The box contains dried butterflies that were collected in the Land of Israel between the years 1863-1865 by delegations of the Anglican Church and have now been donated to the Steinhart Museum of Nature at Tel Aviv University
- Yoram Soreq
- June 2, 2023
- One response
The proverb "There is no joy like the joy of Eid" arouses the curiosity of Moshe who asks "Really?"
- Ben-Gurion University
- June 1, 2023
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A team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has developed a breakthrough technology that includes a revolutionary new test that will predict the response of cancer patients to immunotherapy with a higher percentage of accuracy than existing technologies. The results of the research were published in the prestigious magazine "Science Advances"
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
- May 31, 2023
The long and winding road to doubling the amount of biological material available for research
- Avi Blizovsky
- May 30, 2023
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A new model of human evolution suggests that Homo sapiens arose from many closely related populations rather than from a single group
- Ben-Gurion University
- May 30, 2023
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The shrimp has a particularly bright white color on its back and limbs that are intended to attract fish, which it 'cleanses' of pests it feeds on. An in-depth examination of the white substance using special electron microscopes revealed that the substance consists of an incredibly thin layer of very dense nanospheres (spheres of very tiny diameter)
- Tel Aviv University
- May 28, 2023
The development is expected to revolutionize the improvement processes of agricultural crops
- Tel Aviv University
- May 26, 2023
A deadly plague wiped out all the black sea urchins in the Gulf of Eilat within a few months and threatens to collapse the coral reef
- Tel Aviv University
- May 26, 2023
Assessment: The new discovery may later lead to the development of a general vaccine against the deadly skin cancer
- Weizmann Institute
- May 25, 2023
The institute's scientists discovered a new type of inflammasome - a "smoke detector" of the immune system that ensures more precise control of the height of the flames of an inflammatory reaction. The findings may pave the way for treatments for inflammatory bowel diseases