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Prof. Eli Keshet to be awarded Israel Prize in life sciences
Prof. Eli Keshet is to be awarded the Israel Prize in life sciences this year for his contributions to the development...
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HU Researchers Observe First Evidence of Delayed Radio...
A team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) led by Dr. Assaf Horesh discovered the first evidence...
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Biopsies can be replaced with simple blood tests, Hebrew U....
In diagnostic medicine, biopsies, where a sample of tissue is extracted for analysis, is a common tool for the detection...
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Can A Miniscule Worm Hold the Secret to Reversing Brain...
A team of Hebrew University researchers has successfully used genetic engineering as a first step to what one day may...
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No Bones About: New Discovery Sheds Light on Human History...
While scientists and historians have long surmised that etchings on stones and bones have been used as a form of...
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Prof. Yair Zakovitch to receive Israel Prize in Bible...
Prof. Yair Zakovitch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was announced as the recipient of the Israel Prize in Bible...
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Online platforms are making up free speech rules as they...
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HU Study Examines Pandemic’s Effects on Holocaust...
As the world prepares to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th, communities and memorials...
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One of the oldest mosques in the world uncovered in Tiberias
Archaeologists have determined that foundations found beneath an ancient mosque in Tiberias are from an even older...
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Are Autism Drugs on the Horizon?
Recent years have provided substantial research displaying the effect of genetic mutations on the development of autism...
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Five Hebrew University Graduates Featured in Top 10 on...
Stanford University recently released a list reflecting the top 2% of the most-cited scientists across the various...
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Israeli Researchers Discover New Bee Species
There is no overestimating the importance of pollinators in our world today. While crop pollination relies mainly on...
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Stormy weather ahead: pollution found to cause fierce gales...
A combination of city-generated heat and pollution in tropical coastal cities has been found to significantly increase...
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HU Study Shows Anti-lipid Drug May Reduce COVID-19 Severity
In what has the potential to significantly change how corona patients are being treated and the severity of the disease,...
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Ancient oil lamp workshop, now at Israel Museum, shows the...
A complete rare, early Islamic-era oil lamp workshop from ancient Tiberias on the shores of the Sea of Galilee has gone...
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U of I, Hebrew University Launch Four Collaborative R&D...
The University of Illinois System and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are launching four interdisciplinary research...
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Israeli researchers discover how to lengthen life of solar...
In a move toward upgrading solar power technologies, a team of Israeli researchers at the Hebrew University of...
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One llama’s antibodies, analyzed in Jerusalem, may help...
Antibodies from a single llama that were analyzed in a Jerusalem lab could be replicated and help “millions” of...
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Glowing engineered bacteria point out explosive landmines
Researchers who discovered how to utilize fluorescent E. coli bacteria to locate landmines have recently further mutated...
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Climate research multidisciplinary center opens at Hebrew U.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which considers climate issues as some of the most significant scientific...
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Could octopuses have more than one brain? – Hebrew U....
A new Hebrew University study recently examined the possibility that octopuses, known to be among the most intelligent...
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Archaeologists May Have Discovered Precise Dimensions of...
Storage jars form one of the main ceramic types which were produced and abundantly used ever since pottery was invented....
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Hebrew University Receives World’s Biggest Collection...
Ever wonder what first impressions Kaiser Wilhelm II might have tweeted upon his arrival in Jerusalem on a dusty...
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Hebrew University Closer to Harnessing DNA Molecules for...
We all know that DNA molecules express heredity through genetic information. However, in the past few years, scientists...
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Hebrew University Awarded Grant to Fund Holocaust and Human...
The Alfred Landecker Foundation has awarded the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) a $13 million U.S. grant to fund...
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New Research Finds Tobacco Companies Exploit Legal Loopholes...
Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) find tobacco companies are exploiting legal loopholes “to...
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Studies show pomegranate supplement slows neurodegenerative...
Everybody knows that the pomegranate is a superfood. One of the seven native fruits of Israel, pomegranates are packed...
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HU Researchers Connect Antioxidant-Rich Foods with Colon...
It is a fact that has long baffled doctors: Cancer in the small intestine is quite rare, whereas colorectal cancer,...
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Yissum Spinouts Raise $79 million in H1 2020 Despite...
Startups from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem raised $79 million in the first half of 2020, Yissum, the technology...
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Memory Triggering Increases Chance of Drug Addiction Relapse
Do you remember where you were when you first heard that two planes had crashed into New York’s Twin Towers? Or where...
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Downgrading COVID-19’s Threat to Common Cold Level?
Could a simple drug, that has been on the market for decades, be used to treat COVID-19? A research team led by the...
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HU Research Team Discovers Fruit Bat Signal System
When wild Egyptian fruit bats set out at night to forage in Israel's Hula Valley, they do so using advanced spatial...
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Nano-engineered pomegranate oil holds hope for brain...
A Israeli study has found that multiple sclerosis patients taking a nano-engineered nutritional supplement made out of...
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Special vessels show Jewish continuity in Israel after Roman...
New research offers insights on how Jewish life continued in the Land of Israel after the destruction of the Temple and...
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Ancient scepter found in south may have been part of...
An approximately 3,200-year-old scepter found at a biblical site in southern Israel may be the first physical evidence...
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Why dance? From prehistory to the Bible, scholar offers...
In the 1990s, leading Israeli scholar Yosef Garfinkel, head of the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of...
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The Israeli method that could teach China to speak English
“How did you do on your Gaokao exams?” ...
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New Section of The Great Wall of China Mapped for First Time
For the first time, researchers have fully mapped the “Genghis Khan’s Wall,” a 737km section of The Great Wall...
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Hebrew University receives $1m from US couple for...
A Virginia couple donated a $1 million gift to assist the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in its new program designated...
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DNA from the Bible’s Canaanites lives on in modern...
THEY ARE BEST known as the people who lived “in a land flowing with milk and honey” until they were vanquished by...
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Prof. David Kazhdan becomes first Israeli to win the Shaw...
Prof. David Kazhdan of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has received the distinguished Shaw Prize on his contributions...
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‘I’m optimistic that coronavirus will soon be...
As Israel stampedes for normalcy, with schools stutteringly opening, shops and salons working overtime and restaurants...
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Global Survey of 4,000 Coronavirus Patients Supports Link...
A massive, crowdsourced-survey of COVID-19 patients from over 40 countries provides the greatest evidence to date of the...
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Hebrew University Team Teaches an Old Drug New Tricks
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem developed an injectable antibiotic with a new mode of action, which...
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Coronavirus Lockdown in Israel Was Unnecessary, Say Three...
As the number of recoveries from coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to exceed the number of new diagnoses in Israel, three...
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Hebrew University Researchers Develop COVID-19 Diagnostic...
Media outlets around the world have reported a shortage of COVID-19 testing materials. This shortage slows down the rate...
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3 Hebrew University Professors Win Prestigious EU Grant
Three professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) have been awarded European Research Council Advanced Grants,...
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Research predicts Israel could see 1,000 serious COVID-19...
Israel will have 500 seriously ill coronavirus patients by the first day of Passover, April 9, and five days later the...
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New immunotherapy to target blood cancers, solid tumors
A new joint project will develop precision medicines for blood cancers and solid tumors by utilizing immunotherapies...
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Hebrew University Researchers Submit Proposals to Israel...
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as several Yissum start-up companies are exploring a variety...
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World’s Top Math Prize Awarded to Hebrew University’s...
Today, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced it will award the Abel Prize to Hillel Furstenberg at the...
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Seven Israeli university programs named among top 100...
Seven of Israel’s university departments have been ranked among the world’s top 100 in their respective...
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What Makes an Airbnb Host Look Trustworthy?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Nowhere is this principle truer than in the world of social media. There,...
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Hebrew University Team Unearths Canaanite Temple at Lachish
The Biblical Book of Joshua tells the story of the ancient Israelites’ entry into the Promised Land after a 40-year...
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New Research Confirms Dinosaurs Were Feeling the Heat
From the time that dinosaur fossils were first discovered, these creatures have fascinated scientists and laypeople...
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Israel Prize awarded to Hebrew University Professor Dani...
The Israel Prize for agricultural research and environmental science is being awarded to Prof. Dani Zamir, the Education...
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What red hot chile peppers might be able to do for cancer...
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Do You Ever Lie to Appear More Honest?
Honesty is the best policy, or so the saying goes. But what if the truth seems less believable than a lie? ...
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Researchers Uncover Brief Treatment Time to Control...
Every year in the United States, more than 35,000 people die and 2.8 million get sick from antibiotic-resistant...
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Cigarette Smoke Damages Our Mental Health, Too
For decades, doctors have warned us about the health risks of smoking. However, their warnings focused on the physical...
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New Alzheimer’s Hope This Holiday Season
Holidays are a time for family. Festive gatherings with parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles create memories that...
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Hebrew U Researcher Cracks Newton’s Elusive...
It’s been nearly 350 years since Sir Isaac Newton outlined the laws of motion, claiming “For every action, there is...
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A Periodic Update to a Famous Table
Are you ready for the future? Back in 1869, Russia’s Dmitri Mendeleev began to classify the elements according to...
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Smoking may trigger diabetes in pregnant women, study finds
Israeli and US researchers say that smoking during pregnancy may increase the risk of gestational diabetes, which...
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EMET Prize to be awarded: ‘Israel’s Nobel Prize’ goes...
Israel’s EMET prize, sponsored by the A.M.N. Foundation for the Advancement of Science, Art and Culture in Israel...
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Hebrew University Research Could Offer New Cancer Treatment...
It is a feeling that many who receive a cancer diagnosis can identify with: heartbreak and fear, followed by hopes that...
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Men and women need different treatments for mental illness,...
Why do men with schizophrenia tend to get addicted to smoking, and women schizophrenics don’t? The answer lies in...
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Designer Babies? Selecting Embryos for Traits like Height...
Ever since in vitro fertilization became a reality and scientists began pre-screening embryos for genetic disorders, the...
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Bees Say ‘Buzz Off’ to Sleep When Caring for...
It's a phenomenon that most new parents can identify with: chronic exhaustion due to lack of sleep. As it turns out,...
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Israeli Chatbot Could Diagnose Early Alzheimer’s Disease
Hundreds of drugs have been developed to address Alzheimer’s disease, says Dr. Shahar Arzy, director of the...
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Decoding Denisovans Using DNA
If you could travel back in time to 100,000 years ago, you’d find yourself living among several different groups of...
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Just Press Pause? Can Women Halt Their Biological Clocks?
What if women could press pause on their biological clocks? Human eggs begin to mature from the onset of a woman’s...
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Albert Einstein Heads to China
A unique exhibit with original materials belonging to Albert Einstein will open today at the World Expo Museum in...
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Mechanism for Gamma-ray Bursts from Space is Decoded
Gamma-ray bursts, short and intense flushes of energetic radiation coming out from outer space, are the brightest...
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More than an Image: Hebrew University’s New MRI Technique...
MRIs give us a picture of our body’s insides—organs, bones, nerves, and soft tissue. But what if MRIs could show...
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Were These 3,500-Year-Old Carvings of Nude Women Used As...
An inscribed ancient Egyptian scarab and five clay tablets with carvings of naked women have been found in Rehob, a...
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3,500-year-old staircase evidence of conquered Canaanite...
Seven stunning large basalt stairs recently excavated at Tel Hazor give new indication of the ancient grandeur of the...
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Archaeologists Find City of Ziklag, Refuge of Biblical King...
How was Biblical Ziklag found? Researchers from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority,...
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Penn Dental Renews Exchange with Hebrew University-Hadassah...
Building upon its global engagement, Penn Dental Medicine has renewed ties with Hebrew University-Hadassah School of...
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Neanderthal Settlement Where Our Prehistoric Relatives Lived...
A Neanderthal settlement that was occupied by our ancient relatives on multiple occasions over the course of 10,000...
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Hebrew University Leads the Pack in PH.D.s
As part of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU)’s 82nd Board of Governors (BOG) meeting, 335 students will be...
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Entrepreneur Ori Allon Donates 1.2 Million NIS to Hebrew...
The top student scholarship recipient will be given the opportunity to intern at the Compass Offices in New York and to...
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Cybersecurity and Health Research: Cooperation between...
Cybersecurity and Health Research: Two Fraunhofer Project Centers opened in Israel ...
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Cocktails with Cleopatra: Israeli Scientists Resurrect Yeast...
What kind of beer did Pharaoh drink? In ancient times, beer was an important ingredient in people’s daily diet. Great...
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Commentary: A Huge Leap for Microscopic Health Treatments
WHEN CLEVELAND CLINIC first entered discussions with Hebrew University about a collaboration in nanoscience in 2016, I...
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Forget sperm and eggs, researchers have created embryo stem...
A new, groundbreaking study by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) found a way to transform skin cells into the...
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Hebrew University hosts cannabis conference to forge way...
Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, hosted a Wednesday conference aiming to...
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Scientists Design Decoys to Fight Cancer
In recent years, it's become clear that RNA-binding proteins play a major role in cancer growth. These proteins, active...
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World’s Longest Salt Cave Found in Israel
Following the biblical recounting of Lot’s Wife who was turned into a pillar of salt, Israel’s Dead Sea region is...
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Everything You Need to Know About Cannabis
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Can Artificial Intelligence Solve the Mysteries of Quantum...
Under the direction of Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua, a research group at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s School...
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In His Own Words: New Einstein Manuscripts Revealed
Even 140 years after Albert Einstein’s birth, his scientific discoveries still impact our lives–lasers, nuclear...
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In Oakland, Reuven Hazan makes sense of Israeli politics
BY MAYA MIRSKY | FEBRUARY 26, 2019 ...
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Managers Who Listen Boost Staff Creativity, Study Says
Managers who listen attentively could boost their team members' creativity, suggests a new study from the Hebrew...
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Air Travel Gives Flight to Nano Discovery
Professor Uri Banin, founder of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and...
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Research says you shouldn’t feel singled out for...
The whole love and marriage thing isn’t for everyone, but sometimes it feels like it should be — especially for...
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Why winemakers from around the world are turning to Israel
By Benyamin Cohen | Wednesday, January 30, 2019 ...
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A New Treatment Option in the Fight Against Fatty Liver...
Professor Amiram Goldblum and his team at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute for Drug Research discovered...
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Joins U of I-Led Research...
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a globally recognized leader in education and innovation, signed an agreement...
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Yissum Expands Global Reach
Yissum, the Technology Transfer Company of the Hebrew University, announced the opening of three centers of...
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Rethink everything you know about global warming
Every day seems to bring with it a new headline about the issue of climate change, but this one seems to be primed for...
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The race for the next Dead Sea Scrolls, and why we may lose...
A narrow path leads up to Qumran, a series of caves dotting the stone cliffs where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. The...
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4 reasons being single is good for your body and soul
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Hebrew University to Collaborate With KYORIN
Yissum, the Technology Transfer Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and KYORIN Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd....
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Putting the squeeze on fruit-juice sugars
Once upon a time, Israel’s most famous export was Jaffa oranges. Fast-forward a good few years, and Israel’s turned...
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AI tool helps radiologists clear dangerous data bottleneck
It’s not every day that TIME magazine calls you a genius. ...
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Israeli inventor of car cameras says self-driving vehicles...
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Bonus Time? Better Hope the Boss is NOT Your Friend, Study...
A manager has to give a bonus to one of two equally deserving employees, one of whom is his friend. A judge in a high...
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Can Jerusalem be turned into a high-tech hub?
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Letter reveals Einstein’s fears of growing...
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Hebrew University Researchers Discover Promising Treatment...
Glioblastoma is a serious and incurable brain cancer. Patients who receive this diagnosis typically have 11-20 months...
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Big Boost for Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU), along with the Bezalel Academy of Design and Azrieli College of Engineering,...
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Hebrew U team develops shape-shifting 3D printed pills for...
Researchers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a new way to create drug capsules using 3D printers, a...
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3D bioprinted lungs to be available for global transplants
CollPlant, an Israeli regenerative medicine company focused on 3D bioprinting of tissues and organs, signed a license,...
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6 top tomato innovations from Israeli experts
Next time you chop some luscious red tomatoes into your salad or sauce, you can thank Israeli scientists. ...
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New Discoveries in the Aging Process
The human race spends a great deal of time fighting the inevitable. Just about every stage of life is inevitable, but we...
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Blood-sucking Sand Flies Love Munching on Marijuana
When they’re not sucking the blood of animals, sand flies have a fondness for munching on the marijuana plant...
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Yissum Launches First-of-its Kind Express Licensing Campaign...
Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, launched its pioneering Express...
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AFHU’s Bubbe videos – The Shorty Awards
The third annual Shorty Social Good Awards, which put a spotlight on recent cause marketing campaigns, announced the...
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Israelis develop system for cleaning industrial pollution
A new process under development in Israel could provide the economical, earth-friendly solution many industries seek for...
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Yissum Launches NanoTech Fund
JERUSALEM, Oct. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Yissum, The Technology Transfer Company of the Hebrew University of...
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Hebrew U launches Jerusalem/Nepal semester program for...
American college students torn between a semester in Israel and one in a more exotic location will no longer need to...
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Secrets of a lost village of ancient Israel come to light
A vanished village, buried for centuries under the sands of time, is beginning to emerge in the cave-dotted lowlands...
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In the Garden of Eels
From a distance, garden eels look a bit like some strange grass waving on the sea floor. That’s until they abruptly...
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Archaeologists find signs of 3,000-year-old oracle cult in...
The town of Abel Beth Maacah was known in biblical times as a place for conflict resolution, we may divine from...
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At Hebrew University, all students will study...
In Israel, which boasts the greatest number of startups per capita in the world, and sports the nickname Startup...
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For the first time in 40 years, cure for acute leukemia...
Acute myeloid leukemia is one of the most aggressive cancers. While other cancers have benefited from new treatments,...
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Counting (on) Sheep: Gene therapy research on visually...
In 2009, a group of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers led by Ron Ofri, a Professor of Veterinary...
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Hebrew University Continues to Rank Among World’s Top 100...
Two Israeli universities topped the list of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)’s ranking of higher...
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Jerusalem Incubator Inks Double Korean VC Partnership
OurCrowd Labs/02, a Jerusalem-based seed-stage incubator, has announced on Monday a collaboration agreement with two...
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A mathematical wormhole
Animals often rely on their sense of smell to locate food. It’s a law of nature: the first one to reach a food...
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Israeli stem cell startup raises $4 million for chemo...
NewStem Ltd., a Jerusalem-based biotech startup with a precision-medicine technology that it says can increase the...
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Hebrew University Entrepreneurship Center Appoints Dr. Amnon...
HUJI-Innovate, the Hebrew University Entrepreneurship Center, which fosters innovation among students and researchers,...
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You’re missing the full story on medical cannabis
We’d all like to think that cannabis is a potential solution for specific, difficult-to-treat medical conditions –...
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Hebrew University Law Professor to Lead UN Human Rights...
Yuval Shany, the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Co-Head...
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New cancer drugs could halt autism symptoms AND prevent...
Drugs under development for cancer could halt autism symptoms by blocking a protein linked to both conditions, new...
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