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...

Protein’s role in preventing growth of heart muscle

Monday, Jun 23, 2014

Researchers reveal protein’s role in preventing growth of heart muscle leading to heart failure Cardiovascular disease remains the number one cause of death in the Western world, with heart...

Adult patient cells into stem cells

Thursday, Jun 19, 2014

A First: Nuclear transfer to reprogram adult patient cells into stem cells The capacity to reprogram adult patient cells into pluripotent, embryonic-like, stem cells by nuclear transfer has been...

New treatment proposed to prevent devastating intestinal inflammation in cancer patients

Tuesday, Apr 15, 2014

Jerusalem - Experimental work pointing to a therapy for alleviating mucositis -- a common, severe side effect of chemotherapy and irradiation of cancer patients or patients prepared for bone...