Friend or Foe? How the Unconscious Mind Picks Out Faces in a Crowd

Mittwoch, Jan 17, 2018

Hebrew University Researcher Discovers Dominance and Threat Top the List of Faces a Brain will Quickly Register Within a Crowd Imagine you’re walking down a busy street like Times Square in...

Hebrew University Study Proposes New Way to Predict Heart Disease

Mittwoch, Aug 3, 2016

The idea that plasma high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) protects against coronary heart disease has been part of medical conventional wisdom for five decades. HDL-C has traditionally...

A Deadly Bacterial Game of Hide and Seek

Sonntag, Feb 21, 2016

The majority of disease-causing bacteria in the body are rendered harmless by the protective effects of the immune system. Those that manage to escape the immune system can be killed by...

Dr. Ofra Benny - Faculty of Medicine’s School of Pharmacy

Dienstag, Mai 12, 2015

Dr. Ofra Benny is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine’s School of Pharmacy and is a member of the School’s Institute for Drug Research. From 2010 to 2013 she was an Instructor at...

Novel Method to Suppress Malaria Parasite’s Virulence Genes

Mittwoch, Feb 25, 2015

Up to one million people -- mainly pregnant woman and young children -- are killed each year by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, which causes the most devastating form of human malaria. Now,...

HU Researchers Discover Neutrophils that have the Ability to Fight Cancer

Donnerstag, Jan 22, 2015

New research from the Hebrew University shows that the most common form of white blood cells, called neutrophils, contain many different subtypes, of which some fight the development of cancer and...

Nano Discovery Could Lead to Artificial Retinas for Visually Impaired

Mittwoch, Dez 3, 2014

Jerusalem, December 3, 2014 — Hebrew University Scientists, in collaboration with colleagues from Israel and abroad, have developed a new light-sensitive film that could one day form the basis of...

New "cocktail" to reprogram adult cells

Dienstag, Sep 16, 2014

Hebrew University scientists create therapy-grade stem cells using new cocktail to reprogram adult cells Cells created at Hebrew University's Faculty of Medicine pass the toughest pluripotency...

Way for New, More Effective Influenza Drugs

Freitag, Sep 12, 2014

Hebrew University Antibody Research Paves the Way for New, More Effective Influenza Drugs Research is patented through tech transfer company Yissum, which is seeking commercial R&D...

Bacteria Can Evolve a Biological Timer to Survive Antibiotic Treatments

Dienstag, Jul 8, 2014

A First: Scientists Show That Bacteria Can Evolve a Biological Timer to Survive Antibiotic Treatments The ability of microorganisms to overcome antibiotic treatments is one of the top concerns...

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