Post Donation Category: Research

Better maps for better self-driving cars?

Written on April 8, 2019.

New research on object detection breaks with long-held principles of radar technologies Radar technologies were originally designed to identify and track airborne military targets. Today they’re...

Engineering, Future

New genetically encoded sensor isolates hidden Leukemic cells

Written on March 29, 2019.

Cells express surface markers that help them escape most targeted therapies, Tel Aviv University researchers say Understanding how leukemic stem cells are regulated has become an important area of cancer...

Medicine & Health

What’s in a pi?

Written on March 14, 2019.

March 14h is International Pi Day. Why do we celebrate it? Is pi still relevant 4,000 years after being discovered? And is peach pie better than cherry? What’s the best kind of pie? And...

Mathematics

New blood test could detect genetic disorders during first trimester

Written on March 8, 2019.

Test could map the fetal genome and detect innumerable diseases caused by minuscule impairments, Tel Aviv University researchers say Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a new blood test for...

Medicine & Health

Adolescents with Celiac disease at higher risk of eating disorders

Written on March 3, 2019.

Teenage girls who are overweight and have Celiac Disease are at highest risk of developing eating disorders Celiac disease is a chronic condition, characterized by inflammation and atrophy of the small...

Medicine & Health

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

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