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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

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Dr. Or Kakhlon in his Jerusalem laboratory. (Courtesy)
March 17, 2024, 3:05 pm
Israeli scientists harness molecule to treat rare disease common in Ashkenazim
Research team isolates GHF-201 to fight APBD, a nervous system disorder mostly found in Jews of Eastern European descent, as patients eagerly await the green light for treatment
By Diana Bletter
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
Students and teachers protest against government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, on February 5, 2023. The sign reads: "Without democracy there is no academia" (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 1, 2023, 6:03 pm
Academics and scientists warn damage from overhaul may be ‘irreversible’
In a letter to Netanyahu and to ministers of education and science, university heads and researchers outline ‘tangible risks’ to the tech industry
By ToI Staff
Prof. Avi Loeb, center, on a scientific expedition off of the coast of Papua New Guinea in June 2023 to identify parts of a possible interstellar meteor that crashed in 2014. (Courtesy of Loeb)
July 27, 2023, 2:43 am
Avi Loeb’s claims of finding possible alien technology are polarizing scientists
Funded by a crypto mogul, the Israel-born Harvard professor says a meteor that exploded off the coast of Papua New Guinea may be the first interstellar object found by humanity
By Rich Tenorio
Doctors demonstrate against the judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)
July 26, 2023, 10:17 pm
Doctors, scientists and tech leaders take stock after passage of ‘reasonableness’ law
American physicians and German research institutes offer moral support as Israeli healthcare workers weigh whether to stay and fight for scientific freedom or relocate
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative. Heatwave. (iStock by Getty Images)
February 21, 2023, 10:21 am
Scientists chide environment minister for meeting with climate skeptics
Group calls on Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman to consult with climate change experts rather than people who ‘spread false information’
By Sue Surkes
Gertrude Goldhaber in her office in this undated photo. (Gertrude S. Goldhaber Collection, Leo Baeck Institute)
March 27, 2022, 8:34 pm
When women – and Jews – were forced out of sciences, this Nazi-era pioneer persisted
Gertrude Goldhaber fled the Holocaust to become a renowned US researcher and women’s rights activist. Her son is gifting a treasure trove of documents to NYC’s Leo Baeck Institute
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: In this undated image from video provided by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals on Friday, October 2, 2020, scientists work with a bioreactor at a company facility in New York state, for efforts on an experimental coronavirus antibody drug. (Regeneron via AP)
January 27, 2022, 9:23 am
Americans’ trust in science significantly polarized during pandemic, poll shows
Survey shows Republicans have less confidence in scientific community and medicine compared to Democrats, and are less likely to be vaccinated
By Seth Borenstein and HANNAH FINGERHUT
A woman wearing a face covering due to COVID-19 walks past a red telephone box on Whitehall, near the Houses of Parliament in central London, January 20, 2022. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)
January 22, 2022, 5:20 pm
Omicron sub-variant throws up fresh questions about virus
British virologist says early data on BA.2 indicates ‘no dramatic difference in severity,’ stresses questions remain on transmissibility but doesn’t foresee it causing another wave
By Isabelle TOURNÉ
Reconstruction of Titanokorys gainesi in a frontal view. (Lars Fields/Royal Ontario Museum)
September 8, 2021, 11:52 pm
Scientists discover new 500 million-year-old ‘giant’ of the seas
The Titanokorys gainesi may have been only around half a meter in length — but its size dwarfed most other ocean life at the time
By ToI Staff
Otto Warburg in his laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. (The German Federal Archives)
September 3, 2021, 10:39 pm
Why the Nazis allowed a Jewish cancer scientist to remain in Berlin during WWII
Sam Apple’s new book ‘Ravenous’ tackles the fascinating scientific nexus between cellular metabolism and oncogenes, warning of a link between excessive sugar consumption and cancer
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Team of biologists working with microscopes in a laboratory (Jevtic; iStock by Getty Images)
September 29, 2020, 8:10 pm
Amid pandemic, scientists held in far higher regard than governments, poll shows
Pew Research Center global survey finds science workers also viewed more positively than business leaders, news media
By AFP and ToI Staff
A polar bear sits on the Hudson Bay fresh ice next to a hole in the ice and close to the shore waiting for a seal meal outside Churchill, Mantioba, Canada, November 15, 2007. (Paul J. Richards/AFP)
July 20, 2020, 8:27 pm
Polar bears could be extinct by 2100 due to climate change, study warns
Scientists say rising temperatures are reducing the amount of time that polar bears can hunt for food: ‘Their habitat is literally melting’
By Marlowe HOOD
Pedestrians wear masks as they walk near Charing Cross Station in London, Friday, June 5, 2020. It will become compulsory to wear face coverings while using public transport in England from Monday June 15. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
June 5, 2020, 7:52 pm
UK’s official virus-related death toll surpasses 40,000
Scientists urge government to slow reopening steps ,noting 8,000 new infections daily in England alone; actual death toll believed to be much higher
By Pan Pylas
A police officer walks with soldiers as they patrol Jerusalem city center to enforce a partial lockdown against the spread of the coronavirus on March 31, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
April 9, 2020, 12:46 pm
‘Exiteers’ pitch a range of on-off lockdown proposals to get Israel back to work
Scientists, mathematicians and strategists are devising all manner of plans to beat the virus and revive the economy. The government is listening… and weighing its next moves
By Nathan Jeffay
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