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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

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Prof. Dan Peer and research team at Tel Aviv University's Laboratory of Precision Nanomedicine. (Tel Aviv University)
Israeli researchers use gene editing to eliminate 50% of head, neck tumors in mice
By Diana Bletter
Tel Aviv University scientists say they can inject CRISPR genetic ‘molecular scissors’ to shrink tumors by 90%; researcher ‘optimistic’ about clinical trials in 2 to 3 years
Prof. Dan Peer and research team at Tel Aviv University's Laboratory of Precision Nanomedicine. (Tel Aviv University)
March 17, 2025, 10:57 am
Israeli researchers use gene editing to eliminate 50% of head, neck tumors in mice
Tel Aviv University scientists say they can inject CRISPR genetic ‘molecular scissors’ to shrink tumors by 90%; researcher ‘optimistic’ about clinical trials in 2 to 3 years
By Diana Bletter
This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA)
December 27, 2024, 12:09 pm
NASA probe makes closest ever pass by sun, sustaining 1,700ºF heat
Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, makes history, in first of three record-breaking fly-bys in effort to tackle scientific mysteries about earth’s closest star
By AFP
Johan Åqvist, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Hans Ellegren, Permanent Secretary and Heiner Linke, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry award this years Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M Jumper at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 9, 2024. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)
October 9, 2024, 4:44 pm
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to scientists who predicted proteins’ shapes using AI
David Baker, of Seattle’s University of Washington, produced ‘mind-blowing’ designs for novel proteins, using breakthrough tech by Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, John Jumper
By Daniel Niemann and Mike Corder
NASA Planetary Science Division director Lori Glaze, left, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory DART coordination lead Nancy Chabot, and DART program scientist Tom Statler speak during a media briefing about the agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), at NASA headquarters on October 11, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
October 4, 2024, 12:57 pm
A scientist helps save the world from asteroids. What would the Midrash say?
Addressing Boston’s Vilna Shul as part of its Lifesavers Speaker Series, Dr. Nancy Chabot shows how collaboration in the emerging field of planetary defense proves a rabbinic adage
By Rich Tenorio
This image made from a SpaceX video shows the start of the first private spacewalk led by tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, Sept. 12, 2024. (SpaceX via AP)
September 15, 2024, 2:43 pm
Jewish tech billionaire back to Earth after first private spacewalk
SpaceX’s capsule splashes down in Gulf of Mexico carrying entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, the 264th person to walk in space
By AP and ToI Staff
Sinai and Synapses puts science and religion in dialogue. (iStock/ Pict Rider)
April 22, 2024, 9:11 pm
An empirical haggadah reading? How one US group is mixing science and religion
Sinai and Synapses seeks to disprove the theory that spirituality and science are at odds, with programming that admittedly may leave participants with more questions than answers
By Rich Tenorio
File - this undated handout image provided on January 26, 2022 by astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) shows the Milky Way as viewed from Earth, with a star icon (at R-placed by source) marking the position of a mysterious repeating transient in space. (Natasha Hurley-Walker/AFP)
April 15, 2024, 12:31 pm
Study uses Egyptian mythology as blueprint for ancient heavens
Astrophysicist Or Gruar uses observatory simulators to map the galaxy onto sky-goddess Nut’s body in potential Egyptology breakthrough
By ToI Staff
In this March 16, 2024, image courtesy of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, surgeons perform the world's first genetically modified pig kidney transplant into a living human. (Michelle Rose/Massachusetts General Hospital/AFP)
April 4, 2024, 8:58 pm
First person to undergo successful pig kidney transplant discharged from hospital
Doctors hope surgery at Massachusetts General will pave way for other similar procedures, as thousands die every year waiting for organ transplants
By Mike Stobbe
Members of Max Planck Society delegation with presidents and vice presidents of Israeli universities at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, November 28, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)
December 9, 2023, 5:51 am
While US Jews say they don’t feel safe on campus, German academics show up for Israel
Max Plank Society president Patrick Cramer explains why it was important for his organization not to cancel its planned trip to Israel when so many others did after October 7
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative image: A medical worker prepares a vial of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at Clalit Health Service's center in the Cinema City complex in Jerusalem, on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
October 3, 2023, 10:48 am
Piqued by COVID, storyteller Simon Schama takes a stab at the history of vaccines
In his new book ‘Foreign Bodies,’ the famed historian follows the journey of the emerging microbiologist community of the 18th and 19th centuries toward protecting public health
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Israel’s Innovation, Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis (right) and his British counterpart George Freeman sign a collaboration agreement in the areas of science, innovation and technology, Sept. 20, 2023. (Courtesy)
September 21, 2023, 7:40 pm
Israel and the UK clinch $2.1 million deal for joint science and innovation projects
Ministers of both countries sign agreement to jointly develop critical technologies like quantum computing and collaborate in areas such as AI, health and climate
By Sharon Wrobel
STEMpower founder Mark Gelfand at a STEM center in Africa in an undated photograph. (courtesy)
July 8, 2023, 5:36 am
How a Boston-based retired physicist is spreading the gospel of science in Africa
To explain why he’s founded over 100 hands-on labs in sub-Sahara Africa, Mark Gelfand points to Hebrew school classes and a natural curiosity for the workings of the world
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Placenta multinucleated cells (Moriyah Naama/Buganim Lab Hebrew University)
June 29, 2023, 8:10 pm
In first, Hebrew U. lab induces placenta cells, boosting pregnancy disorder research
Achievement will allow study of possible causes for placental insufficiency, which affects up to 15% of pregnancies and causes one in 100 pregnancies to end in miscarriage
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative image of a scientist in a lab (anyaivanova; iStock by Getty Images)
June 25, 2023, 11:42 am
Israel Science Foundation announces new program to support physician-researchers
$100 million MAVRI initiative funded by government and philanthropists will create positions and carve out time for doctors who also want to work in the lab
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Digital imagery of stem cell-derived embryos created by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in June 2023. (Screen capture/Weizmann Institute of Science)
June 15, 2023, 8:48 pm
In breakthrough, Israeli scientists say they synthesized human embryos from stem cells
Weizmann Institute team uses stem cell model allowing researchers to see into ‘black box’ of critical early stage of pregnancy
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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