Israel’s Largest Medical Center is Also World’s “10th Best”
Israel’s largest hospital – Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv – has been named the “10th-best best medical center in the world” by Newsweek magazine.
City of David Excavations Reveal Jar Fragment from Period of Later Prophets
Archaeologists working at the City of David – Givati Parking Lot excavations have uncovered a fragment of a clay jar decorated with a human face. Only two wide open eyes, a nose, one ear and a small section of the corner of the mouth survived intact.
Genetically Encoded Sensor Isolates Hidden Leukemic Stem Cells
Leukemic stem cells are the most malignant of all leukemic cells. Understanding how leukemic stem cells are regulated has become an important area of cancer research.
Israeli Experts: ‘Parents Who Refuse to Vaccinate Children are Reckless’
The introduction a decade ago by Israel’s Health Ministry of the Prevnar (PCV) vaccine to the immunization schedule of the country’s babies has reduced hospitalizations as the direct result of Streptococcus pneumoniae dipped by a staggering 62%.
New Blood Test Could Map Fetal Genome for Countless Mutations
Every parent-to-be dreams of having a perfect baby, and many even taken this for granted. But in pregnancies, so many things – especially their combinations of genes – can go wrong and lead to disappointment and concern. Every healthy baby is a miracle.
TAU-led International Team Discovers How Supermassive Black Holes Are ‘Fed’
Supermassive black holes constantly gobble up gas or suddenly swallow even whole stars. Weighing millions to billions of times more than our sun, these gargantuan black holes lie at the center of most galaxies. A prodigious black hole several million times the mass of the sun is situated in the heart of our very own Milky Way.
Tasty Israeli Steaks Without a Single Moo
The tasty steaks that will be produced by Israel’s Aleph Farms do not come from cattle that were sent to the slaughterhouse and spent their lives mooing and eating grass, alfalfa and corn.
Tel Aviv University Scientists Point a New Way to Fight Breast Cancer
Despite extensive research, breast cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in women in the Western world. One case of such a malignancy can be very different from another. Some patients undergo surgery and recover, while other women (and, in one in 100 cases, men) struggle with radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy but still have difficulty fighting it because the tumors are resistant to treatment and spread to other organs.
Heal O’Israel, Music as a Lullaby for Sleep-Challenged
Many people, in fact, use music in the hope that it fights sleep difficulties, according to a study published this month the open-access journal PLoS ONE.
Tel Aviv University Astrophysicists Discover Swallowed Galaxy
Astronomers at Tel Aviv University’s Wise Observatory outside Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev have discovered evidence of a galaxy’s being gobbled up by its neighbors. They identified a heavenly body in the shape of a tadpole with an enormous tail about 500,000 light-years long and some 300 million light-years away from Earth. They said the “tadpole,” which had not been discovered until now because it shines in a very pale light, is composed of the remains of a dwarf galaxy created by swallowing two large nearby galaxies.
