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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

scientific research

Master Sgt. (res.) Raz Abulafia, 27, from Rishpon, of the 12th Brigade's 6863rd Battalion. (IDF)
February 19, 2025, 3:27 pm
Researcher names potent lifesaving virus after soldier boyfriend killed in Gaza War
As antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose growing health risk, Hebrew University scientists search for ‘good’ viruses and name them after heroes killed on or after Oct. 7
By Diana Bletter
An image from a record of seismic activity generated by Hamas vehicles heading toward the Gaza-Israel border on October 7, 2023. (Tel Aviv University)
November 28, 2024, 10:43 pm
3 seismometers in southern Israel detected Hamas activity just before Oct. 7 attack
Tel Aviv scientists find widely spaced stations picked up heavy vehicle movement in 30 minutes prior to invasion; findings could open way for detection systems to serve security
By Sue Surkes
Elad Gilon finds a Russell species of fungi. He is doing research to determine if it is edible. (Emmanuel Sarid)
October 15, 2024, 6:04 am
In first, doctoral candidate enlists foragers across Israel to help map mushroom DNA
There are over 1,000 species of fungi in the Holy Land; what started as one scientist’s hobby has mushroomed into a collective effort on a scale never before seen in the country
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative. Computer processors. Conventional computers process information, or bits, each of which can be either a zero or a one, in the binary language of computing. Quantum bits, however, used by quantum computers, can be both a zero and one simultaneously. (Rost-9D; iStock by Getty Images)
August 11, 2024, 6:39 pm
Amid ongoing war, Israel and the UK launch fund for joint tech research projects
$2.4 million fund will allocate grants to joint research on quantum technologies, AI in drug discovery, food tech
By Sharon Wrobel
Zechariah Haber, left, with his wife, Talia. (Courtesy)
July 12, 2024, 10:42 pm
‘An insatiable curiosity’: Reservist killed in Gaza fighting gets posthumous PhD
Widow, parents of Zechariah Haber, 32, collect Tel Aviv University diploma; biologist sought to improve crop productivity in harsh climatic conditions; others to continue his research
By Diana Bletter
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
HIV virus (yellow) infecting a human cell (© Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash/Courtesy of Touro University)
September 26, 2023, 2:05 pm
New research shows previously unidentified pathway used by HIV to infect cells
Study led by professor at Touro University’s Nevada campus sheds light on how AIDS-causing virus enters a cell’s nucleus so it can replicate, finds possible drug countermeasure
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Itamar Harel of the Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Itamar Harel)
July 20, 2023, 5:27 pm
Israeli scientists believe experiments reversing aging in fish could benefit humans
Hebrew University researchers genetically manipulate energy regulation in male African killifish, making them live longer and develop resistance to age-related conditions
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
Illustrative: A researcher examines human embryonic stem cells with a microscope in Michigan, October 22, 2008. (Paul Sancya/AP)
June 15, 2023, 10:28 am
Scientists create synthetic human embryos from stem cells, without an egg or sperm
Team at UK’s University of Cambridge grow embryo to point where distinct cell lines form, though not brain or heart
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image: neurons inside the human brain (onimate via iStock by Getty Images)
June 10, 2023, 2:30 pm
New Israeli study shows link between autism and nitric oxide levels in brain neurons
Peer-reviewed research at Hebrew University’s Pharmacy School could lead to drug treatments for people with autism and other neurological conditions
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Tomatoes were among the plants tested for sound by Tel Aviv University researchers. (David Besa, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)
March 30, 2023, 8:06 pm
In groundbreaking research, Tel Aviv U team records plants ‘talking’ for first time
Scientists discover clicking sounds, which humans can’t hear and which differ based on species and type of stress; wonder what uses other plants, animals make of the information
By Sue Surkes
A Micrelaps snake. (David David/Tel Aviv University)
March 2, 2023, 4:36 pm
In rare scientific advance, new snake family identified in Israel
Family Micrelapidae has only three species, one in region of Israel and two in East Africa; reptiles believed to have slithered off the snake evolutionary tree 50 million years ago
By ToI Staff
The Golda hens when they were chicks. (Ori Peretz)
December 13, 2022, 4:36 pm
In first, Israeli scientists program hens to lay eggs that carry only female chicks
Gene editing technology developed by Volcani Center scientists, who say it has potential to stop ‘devastating’ destruction of 7 billion unwanted male chicks globally each year
By Sue Surkes
The Ashalim Stream, after it was polluted in June, 2017. (Georgi Norkin, Israel Nature and Parks Authority, File)
September 12, 2022, 8:47 pm
Scientists find way to recycle fertilizer industry’s phosphoric acid wastewater
Wastewater from Israeli phosphate mining company caused lasting environmental damage at Ashalim Stream, near Dead Sea, after evaporation pool wall collapsed in 2017
By Sue Surkes
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