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Do We Need ‘Junk DNA’?

Researchers offer possible reason why neutral sequences in the genome of living creatures continue to exist millions of years later. A new model developed at Tel Aviv University offers a possible solution...

Life Sciences

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Promoting Women in Medicine

New enrichment program created for and by Tel Aviv University’s female medical students. Women in Medicine (WIM) is a new program created for and by TAU’s female medical students. The semester-long...

Medicine

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#TAU_WOMEN_POWER

Meet female researchers from Tel Aviv University who received the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grants this year. Four female researchers from Tel Aviv University received the prestigious European...

law, Management, Medicine

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New Snake Family Identified

As far as researchers are aware the Micrelapidae family includes only three species, one in Israel and neighboring countries, and two in East Africa. An extensive international study identified a new family...

Life Sciences

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Breaking Glass Ceilings

Tel Aviv University alumna, Israela Tadela Baruch, launches project to empower Israeli women of Ethiopian descent. “We are here to reach the forums where significant decisions are made that affect...

Social Sciences

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The Thinnest Possible Ladder

Tel Aviv researchers reveal two-dimensional crystals exhibiting unique control of distinct electric potential steps. Tel Aviv University research reveals two-dimensional crystals exhibiting a unique control...

Exact Sciences

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Will Biden Lose Congress?

Next week’s elections in the U.S. will be critical. Tel Aviv University researchers explain why. The U.S. 2022 midterm elections on November 8 are fast approaching, but if a new President is not on...

Politics & Society

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Ready, Set, Study!

Over 3000 freshmen attend Tel Aviv University’s fall semester orientation day. Just before the academic school year begins in Israel on Sunday October 23, 3,000 freshmen attended TAU’s “First...

Tel Aviv University

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Slowing Down Skin Cancer

Tel Aviv University researchers decipher the mechanism that enables skin cancer to metastasize to the brain – delaying its spread by 80%. Once melanoma, or skin cancer, spreads to the brain, it becomes...

Medicine & Health

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Are Corals in Deep Trouble?

Reproductive capacity of coral decreases with water depth. Today, when coral reefs around the world are being severely damaged by climate change and other human impacts, many are pinning their hopes on deeper...

Life Sciences

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Making Wheat Rust-Resistant

Researchers respond to the global food crisis by enabling resistance of wheat to rust diseases. Wheat supplies about one fifth of all calories and proteins consumed by humanity. However, through the millennia,...

Life Sciences

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Like Manna from the Sea

Innovative technology may ease global food crisis: “enriched seaweed” with extremely high nutritional value. Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute...

Life Sciences

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Why do Corals Glow?

For centuries, nature lovers and scientists have been fascinated by the fact that creatures in the sea are able to glow. The phenomenon is very common in reef-building corals, but its biological role has been...

Life Sciences

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Pursuing the Unknown

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