A Deadly Bacterial Game of Hide and Seek

Sunday, Feb 21, 2016

The majority of disease-causing bacteria in the body are rendered harmless by the protective effects of the immune system. Those that manage to escape the immune system can be killed by...

HU Research Reshapes Future of Psychiatric Medicine & Depression

Tuesday, Nov 3, 2015

Groundbreaking research, headed by Prof. Raz Yirmiya of The Hebrew University, advances psychiatry’s understanding and ability to treat depression. Yirmiya was the senior editor of an article,...

Scientists Believe Alzheimer’s Is A Collection Of Diseases That Should Be Classified And Treated Separately

Tuesday, Nov 3, 2015

Alzheimer’s disease, neurons with amyloid plaques Deciphering the mechanism that underlies the development of Alzheimer’s disease in certain families but not in others, researchers at The...

Dr. Ofra Benny - Faculty of Medicine’s School of Pharmacy

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Dr. Ofra Benny is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine’s School of Pharmacy and is a member of the School’s Institute for Drug Research. From 2010 to 2013 she was an Instructor at...

Novel Method to Suppress Malaria Parasite’s Virulence Genes

Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015

Up to one million people -- mainly pregnant woman and young children -- are killed each year by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, which causes the most devastating form of human malaria. Now,...

HU Researchers Discover Neutrophils that have the Ability to Fight Cancer

Thursday, Jan 22, 2015

New research from the Hebrew University shows that the most common form of white blood cells, called neutrophils, contain many different subtypes, of which some fight the development of cancer and...

Nano Discovery Could Lead to Artificial Retinas for Visually Impaired

Wednesday, Dec 3, 2014

Jerusalem, December 3, 2014 — Hebrew University Scientists, in collaboration with colleagues from Israel and abroad, have developed a new light-sensitive film that could one day form the basis of...

New "cocktail" to reprogram adult cells

Tuesday, Sep 16, 2014

Hebrew University scientists create therapy-grade stem cells using new cocktail to reprogram adult cells Cells created at Hebrew University's Faculty of Medicine pass the toughest pluripotency...

Way for New, More Effective Influenza Drugs

Friday, Sep 12, 2014

Hebrew University Antibody Research Paves the Way for New, More Effective Influenza Drugs Research is patented through tech transfer company Yissum, which is seeking commercial R&D...

Bacteria Can Evolve a Biological Timer to Survive Antibiotic Treatments

Tuesday, Jul 8, 2014

A First: Scientists Show That Bacteria Can Evolve a Biological Timer to Survive Antibiotic Treatments The ability of microorganisms to overcome antibiotic treatments is one of the top concerns...