Post Donation Category: Research

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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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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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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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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From City of God to the Holy Land

Brazilian student will apply TAU expertise in social innovation to empower youth in her impoverished hometown. As a girl, TAU scholarship student Ana Letícia Araújo would accompany her mother from their favela...

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Standing Up to Climate Change

TAU researchers are making significant environmental impact on the ground—now. A software programmer, an ecologist and a wildlife photographer enter a room. This is not the preamble to a joke. This is a normal...

Climate Change

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Pursuing the Unknown

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