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American molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun, left, and UMass Chair in Natural Sciences and professor of molecular medicine, Victor Ambros, in undated pictures. (Joshua Touster and UMass via AP)
October 7, 2024, 3:01 pm
Americans Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun win Nobel Prize in medicine for microRNA discovery
Nobel Assembly says duo’s discovery is ‘fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function’; Ruvkun is Jewish; Ambros’s father endured forced labor by the Nazis
By AP and ToI Staff
Faculty delegation from Harvard, Stanford and Dartmouth at Tel Aviv University, on March 19, 2023. (courtesy TAU)
March 24, 2024, 1:12 pm
US academics from Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth latest group to make Israel pilgrimage
Mindful of an informal boycott of Israeli academics since Oct. 7, faculty from three prestigious US schools come to tour massacre sites and take home the lessons learned
By Gavriel Fiske
Carola Eisenberg (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 19, 2021, 9:54 pm
Carolina Eisenberg, co-founder of Physicians for Human Rights, dies at 103
The psychiatrist, born to Jewish emigres in Argentina, was first female dean of students at MIT, Harvard Medical School
By ToI Staff
Illustrative -- A Pakistan Army helicopter flies over the site of an avalanche over Gayari camp, April 18, 2012 (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
January 22, 2021, 9:33 am
Jewish Harvard Medical School professor dies climbing in Pakistan’s mountains
Campaign launched to fund return of Alex Goldfarb’s body after he died while apparently attempting to scale Broad Peak on his own and without supplemental oxygen
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Medical personnel walk among patients with mild symptoms of the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Fangcai Hospital set up in a sports stadium in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, February 18, 2020. (Stringer/AFP)
June 9, 2020, 1:20 pm
Satellite images of Chinese hospital parking suggests outbreak began in August
Upending current coronavirus outbreak assumptions, Harvard Medical School study shows significant spike in car traffic at Wuhan medical centers as early as last summer
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Pediatricians preparing to vaccinate a baby. (Getty Images)
March 13, 2019, 12:54 pm
Study shows that with targeted vaccines, future babies may need fewer shots
Israeli member of Harvard research team says discoveries may ‘change the face of medicine’
By ToI Staff
Paul Sorvino, Martin Landau and Maria Dizzia in 'Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game' (Courtesy Gravitas Ventures)
January 12, 2018, 7:23 pm
Senior sex and quirky bromance in MD’s debut film — Martin Landau’s last hurrah
The Jewish actor’s stunning final performance in ‘Abe & Phil’s Last Poker Game’ is only outdone by the movie’s writer: a 73-year-old Harvard neurologist
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative photo of pharmaceutical pills. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
January 22, 2017, 3:19 pm
Israeli tech cuts drug errors, Harvard study shows
Ra’anana-based MedAware has created software to identify and send alerts about prescription errors in real-time
By Shoshanna Solomon
Members of the covert 'White Rose' resistance group against Hitler, including Hans Scholl (left) and Sophie Scholl, in Munich, 1942 (Public domain)
November 23, 2016, 10:24 pm
Trump win sprouts ‘white roses’ in spirit of anti-Nazi youth
In Boston, an exhibition on Nazi Germany’s ‘White Rose’ resistance group generates discussion comparing Adolf Hitler’s regime and Donald Trump’s rise to power
By Matt Lebovic
Live fluorescent imaging of hepatitis C viruses (red) seemingly avoiding liver cells that accumulate fat (green) in spite of the virus's well known contribution to fatty liver disease (Courtesy of Prof. Yaakov Nahmias)
October 10, 2016, 6:03 pm
Hebrew U.-led team finds new metabolic way to resist viruses
International team of scientists identify possible Achilles heel of infection-causing Hepatitis C
By Shoshanna Solomon
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