New technique targets cancer cells and leaves healthy ones alone; Patients would receive less chemo and fewer side effects

Wednesday, Nov 27, 2019

It is a feeling that many who receive a cancer diagnosis can identify with: heartbreak and fear, followed by hopes that chemotherapy will save the day. Unfortunately, for many patients, chemo’s...

HU scientists find bee parents skip sleep to care for young

Monday, Nov 11, 2019

Yoram Ascheim/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem A bumblee queen and workers caring for a brood. It’s not only human mums who give up precious sleep to care for their newborns. Nursing...

Israeli Chatbot Could Diagnose Early Alzheimer’s Disease

Sunday, Oct 6, 2019

Hundreds of drugs have been developed to address Alzheimer’s disease, says Dr. Shahar Arzy, director of the computational neuropsychiatry lab at Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center in...

Hebrew University Researchers Provide First Glimpse at What Ancient Denisovans May Have Looked Like, Using DNA Methylation Data

Wednesday, Sep 25, 2019

If you could travel back in time to 100,000 years ago, you’d find yourself living among several different groups of humans, including Modern Humans (those anatomically similar to us),...

Can Women Pause Their Biological Clocks?

Tuesday, Sep 10, 2019

What if women could press pause on their biological clocks? Human eggs begin to mature from the onset of a woman’s first period. However, most Western thirteen-year-olds are not interested...

A Team of Scientists Resurrect Yeast from 5,000-Year-Old Beer Jugs to Recreate Brew

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

A team of researchers was able to resurrect 5000 years old yeast to create a high-quality beer. Microbiologists from the School of Dental Medicine at the Hebrew University, Dr. Ronen Hazan and Dr....

Europe’s Largest Organization for Applied Research Focuses on Israel

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

On May 21, the German-based Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft inaugurated two new Project Centers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The “Fraunhofer Project Center for Cybersecurity” and the...

Understanding the Evolution in Color Naming

Wednesday, Dec 19, 2018

Efficient Compression in Color Naming and its Evolution The world’s languages vary widely in the way they encode colors into words. For example, English has separate terms for...

Your memories could be read and replayed after you die

Friday, May 11, 2018

Our memories leave a clear and unique genetic mark on our brains, according to researchers from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. These can be decoded after we die. That’s the remarkable...

A Tiger May Not Change its Spots but Venomous Creatures Tweak Their Venom Recipe Many Times in a Lifetime

Monday, Mar 5, 2018

Hebrew University researcher discovers Darwinism at work, as sea anemones adapt their venom to accommodate changing prey and sea conditions Many animals use venom to protect themselves from...

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