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Hebrew University researchers discover promising treatment for aggressive brain tumours
December 13, 2018
Glioblastoma is a serious and incurable brain cancer.Patients receiving this diagnosis typically have 11-20 months to live. One of the main difficulties in treating this cancer is that its cells quickly build up a resistance to chemotherapy. In the upcoming issue of Nucleic Acids Research, Professor Rotem Karni and his team at Hebrew University’s Institute for Medical …
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Research indicates we may ‘get older’ sooner than we think
December 13, 2018
The human race spends a great deal of time fighting the inevitable. Just about every stage of life is inevitable, but we exercise to live longer, eat certain diets to stay healthier, and undergo treatments and use different products to ‘stay younger.’ As it pertains to that last one, an interesting new study indicates that …
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Could Robots Replace Psychologists, Politicians, and Poets?
December 11, 2018
Speaking at a three-day international conference, “What makes Us Human: From Genes to Machine,” Hebrew University professor and best-selling author, Yuval Noah Harari, discussed the potential to back humans through a combination of advances in computing power, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and in brain science. He further suggested no profession is fully safe from …
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Start-up Says It’s First to Copy Spider’s Silk Spinning Process
December 6, 2018
Seevix Material Sciences Ltd, a spider silk start-up based in Jerusalem, says it’s the only company to successfully replicate the process of creating spider silk. Real spider silk is strong, incredibly elastic, and able to withstand extreme temperatures. It is also biodegradable and biocompatible. Seevix’s strands are based on 10 years of research from Seevix …
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Meet the New Meat: A Printed Burger
December 5, 2018
Israeli food tech company Chef-it may soon disrupt the fast food burger industry, according to Chef-it’s co-founder, Hebrew University Professor Oded Shoseyov. The start-up’s secret weapon: cellulose. Chef-it is developing a machine that can instantly “print” a juicy burger from a cartridge containing plant-based proteins, fats, flavour components, and cellulose, a common fibre that can …
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Year-End Bonus Time?
December 3, 2018
Better Hope the Boss is NOT Your Friend, New Study Finds (Jerusalem, December 3, 2018)—A manager has to give a bonus to one of two equally deserving employees, one of whom is his friend. A judge in a high school debating competition has to decide which of two finalists to vote for, one of whom …
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Shining a new light onto the spectrum
December 3, 2018
Three years ago, the Hebrew University established Israel’s first university-based Autism Center, designed to integrate and advance research, training, clinical services, and community engagement for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families. The education and services the Center provides are vital to progress in ASD research ASD is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder occurring …
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Where the Wild Things Are: Scientists Head to the Zoo to Determine if Cell Size Affects Lifespan
December 3, 2018
Led by Hebrew University’s Yuval Dor, researchers in Israel, Canada, and Germany found that animals with larger pancreatic cells tend to age faster, while those with smaller cells seem to live longer. A chance observation in the lab sparked the researchers’ interest in further examining the pancreatic cell sizes of animals beyond humans and mice. …
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Congratulations are in order!
December 1, 2018
#HebrewU mathematician Karim Adiprasito won the 2019 Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics prize for “early-career achievements in math”. The $100,000 prize was awarded to Adiprasito for helping to develop “a combinatorial Hodge theory which led to the resolution of the log-concavity conjecture of Rota”. Now, say that three times fast.
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New role for Rob Schneider as joins AUSTFHU
October 31, 2018
Originally appeared in J-Wire Michael Dunkel, Federal President of the Australian Friends of the Hebrew University today announced the appointment of Rob Schneider as the new National CEO of the organisation. Rob Schneider In announcing the appointment, Michael Dunkel stated that “Rob will bring his many years of communal endeavours and successes to the Australian …