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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 466

Bar-Ilan University

Illustrative: A caveman holds a stone-tipped spear, ready to hunt animal preys. (iStock/Getty Images)
January 9, 2025, 10:44 am
Early man ate carbs and processed food 780,000 years ago, northern Israel site shows
Analysis of basalt tools from the Hula Valley shows that Stone Age humans gathered, extracted and crushed starches from acorns, cereals, legumes and aquatic plants
By Gavriel Fiske
Healthy coral reefs off the coast of Eilat in southern Israel. (Meron Segev)
November 26, 2024, 3:19 pm
Red Sea coral study points to rich microbial life as key to healthy reefs
In discovery that could help rehabilitate damaged ecosystems, Israeli-Australian team using faux reefs finds rich communities of bacteria and invertebrates help corals thrive
By Sue Surkes
Students at Reichman University in Herzliya, in an undated photo. (courtesy)
October 28, 2024, 5:00 pm
Universities gear up for new academic year in shadow of ongoing war
A significant portion of registered students are also expected to serve as IDF reservists, many for a second year in a row
By Gavriel Fiske
A fragment of a rare 3,800-year-old textile, dyed with the Kermes vermilio insect. (Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority)
July 18, 2024, 7:21 pm
Tiny 3,800-year old textile found in Israel was dyed with biblical ‘scarlet worm’
Ancient sources reference use of scale insects for red dye, but examples from before Roman period are sparse; new find ‘bridges the gap’ between written sources and found artifacts
By ToI Staff
Detail from artistic interpretation of the rare genetic disease Rett syndrome by Hadar Zysman, who suffers from the disease. She creates art using a computer app that responds to her eye movements. (Courtesy of Weizmann Institute)
February 29, 2024, 11:01 am
Rare genetic diseases captured in painful and inspiring online art exhibition
With February 29 marking International Rare Diseases Day, Israeli researchers launch a website providing families of diagnosed kids with crucial information and resources
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Testicular organoids generated from mice pups and incubated in a dish for 21 days in Dr. Nitzan Gonen's lab at Bar-Ilan University. (Aviya Stopel)
February 23, 2024, 1:46 pm
In breakthrough, Bar-Ilan University scientists form artificial lab-grown testicles
Creation of male gonad organoids using mice could lead to similar work using human tissues that could support advancements in infertility treatments
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Bar-Ilan University campus, on January 31, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
February 6, 2024, 7:40 am
Released IDF reservists head back to school, but not everything is a matter of course
A visit to Bar-Ilan University reveals some of the difficulties facing returning student-soldiers and how administrators are attempting to address the challenges
By Gavriel Fiske
Ben Gurion University of the Negev students work at a logistic center set up on campus, in an undated photo during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. (Courtesy)
November 7, 2023, 6:13 pm
Israeli universities step up to support students in reserves, war effort
Aside from grants and other aid, institutes of higher education open campuses for assistance efforts, evacuee lodging
By Gavriel Fiske
Students at Hebrew University on the first day of the academic year on October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
April 27, 2023, 11:36 am
University staffs call strike over pay dispute with institutions, Finance Ministry
Senior faculty declare ‘warning’ action, saying they see effective wage cut from inflation, economic uncertainty; say other side ‘dragging feet’
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators block a road and clash with police as they protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
March 2, 2023, 5:22 pm
120 Israeli academics express support for government’s judicial overhaul plan
Public letter by professors from various fields, including Nobelist, argues judiciary took excessive power from legislative, executive branches, calls for ‘broad agreement’
By Jeremy Sharon
File: Illustration of a breast cancer cell (Christoph Burgstedt via iStock by Getty Images)
January 17, 2023, 1:03 pm
Israeli scientists say substance prevents cancer’s spread in mice with 90% success
On warpath against secondary tumors, scientists believe they’ve found a way to stop cancer cells from entering blood, moving around the body; but solution not yet in medicine form
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative: Doctors perform cardiac catheterizations at Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital, in Jerusalem, on January 20, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 10, 2023, 7:26 pm
Israel to trim med student internships in bid to tackle ‘dire’ shortage of doctors
Decision to halve length of medical internships and restructure them will boost number of practicing physicians and lead to better-trained doctors, Health Ministry says
By Nathan Jeffay
An image from the Bar Ilan University lab of Prof. Cyrille Cohen, showing two immune cells in green fighting a cancer cell in red, in the new immunotherapy invented there (Cyrille Cohen, Tilda Barliya and Astar Shamul)
January 4, 2023, 4:55 pm
After demonstrating 57% remission rate, Israeli immunotherapy licensed by US firm
Some 85% of patients improved after taking new therapy developed by Bar Ilan and Hadassah; method involves adding artificial molecule to T-cells
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative image: An Israeli receives a COVID shot at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
December 5, 2022, 12:04 pm
Side effects of COVID vaccines often ‘psychosomatic’: Israeli peer-reviewed study
The more hesitant people were, the more likely they were to experience side effects, scientists found, after quizzing 750 Israelis on vaccine attitudes and post-shot symptoms
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative image: antibodies attacking a cell (Christoph Burgstedt via iStock by Getty Images)
November 20, 2022, 11:10 am
Cancer patients test world’s first ‘computer-designed’ antibodies, made in Israel
‘Nano-robot’ antibodies can be programmed to do much more when designed from scratch than when based on animal/human antibodies, says inventor
By Nathan Jeffay
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