Post Donation Category: Research

MIT expert helps promote synthetic biology at TAU

Written on March 1, 2019.

Prof. Christopher Voigt of MIT visits TAU to talk to researchers and set up new collaborations for grad students Living organisms are amazing feats of engineering: By following instructions encoded...

Biotechnology, Microbiology

Are two brains better than one?

Written on February 19, 2019.

In scientific research, sometimes 1 + 1 equals more than 2 What do scientists need to become a winning team? Is it true that the opposites attracts? Or is it that research based on a...

Combined Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, Medicine & Health

A match made in Megiddo

Written on February 13, 2019.

How the chemistry between archaeology and physics researchers led to groundbreaking discoveries about biblical history Sometimes when you’ve stopped looking for a solution is exactly when...

Archeology, Physics

Inside a bat’s brain

Written on February 13, 2019.

Prof. Yaniv Assaf and Prof. Yossi Yovel are working together on a unique collection of brain scans of different mammals It’s a chicken versus egg scenario: Does behavior build a neural network or...

Zoology

Conversations in the Clean Room

Written on February 13, 2019.

At the shared laboratories of the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, casual conversations between scientists can lead to breakthroughs A chemist and a physicist walk into a clean room. No, this...

Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics

Inside a bat’s brain

Written on February 13, 2019.

Zoology

Dr. Mordechai Gerlic’s Paper on the Cover of The FEBS Journal

Written on February 11, 2019.

IL-33 is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that plays a role in a range of inflammatory diseases. To date, the mechanism underlying its release in cells is not fully understood. A recent work led by MD/PhD...

Medicine & Health

Connecting through Music

Written on January 28, 2019.

TAU’s Institute for Promoting Dialogue through Music is pioneering a new tool for bringing people closer together In Israel’s fractured society – Arab vs. Jew; religious vs. secular; Ashkenazi vs....

Music, Tel Aviv University

Pure Escapism

Written on January 28, 2019.

The new Escape Room Project provides a creative way of making learning more fun University exams are not the easiest time for students. The pressure leads to thoughts of escape – to anywhere except...

Neuroscience

TAU-led team discovers new way black holes are “fed”

Written on January 24, 2019.

These “giant monsters” were observed suddenly devouring gas in their surroundings Supermassive black holes weigh millions to billions times more than our sun and lie at the center of most...

Astronomy

Our 2018 Highlights- Dan David research is at the Top

Written on January 4, 2019.

The 2018 Altmetric Top 100; The PLOS Blogs (SciComm) Top 6 Human Evolution Discoveries of 2018; The Ynet top Scientific Research for 2018 Dan David Centerf for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research at Tel...

Biohistory, Biology & Evolution