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Health and Medicine

New Israeli Study Sheds Light on Promising Antidepressant

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

A newly revealed mechanism of ketamine’s action on potassium channels in neurons may lead to improved therapies for depression, a new study by Weizmann Institute researchers shows.

Featured / Israel / Science and Tech

New Weizmann Study on Bats Throws Light on When the Brain’s GPS Goes Off the Grid

By Jewish Press News Desk

A new study on bats reveals an unexpected representation of three-dimensional space in the brain.

Headline / Politics / UK / Antisemitism / Boycott / BDS / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Israeli Academic Leading Call to Boycott Ariel University Conference

By JNi.Media

"If the academic code of ethics was created for any purpose at all, it was to combat academic boycotts of Israel."

Featured / Israel / Travel / Science and Tech

Israel Launching Moon Mission This December

By JNi.Media

First Israeli lunar spacecraft set to land on moon Feb. 13, 2019, making Israel fourth country to reach Earth's satellite.

Politics / Global / Government / News Briefs

President Rivlin Receives New Ambassadors from India, Chile, Myanmar, Estonia, Lesotho

By Jewish Press Staff

President Rivlin said, "The Indian and Israeli people have a lot in common, we know how to respect tradition and to be ready to learn and bring innovation to our lives for the benefit of our people and the whole world."

Israel / News Briefs / Science and Tech

Weizmann Institute Professors Launch Course Helps Women Juggle Science and Motherhood

By JNi.Media

“Why don’t we give them the benefit of our own experience? We all wished we had such a course when we were in that situation."

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Weizman Institute Revealing Secrets of Protective Coating of Wheat and Barley

By JNi.Media

In the future it may be possible to make use of the study’s findings to breed crops with a higher yield and a greater resistance to drought.

Israel / News Briefs / Science and Tech

Weizmann Scientists Engineer Bacteria Making Sugar from Greenhouse Gas

By JNi.Media

The Institute scientists inserted the metabolic pathway for carbon fixation and sugar production into the bacterium E. coli, a known “consumer” organism that eats sugar and releases carbon dioxide.

Israel / US / Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Media / Science and Tech / Holocaust

Israelis Star in Nobel Prizes, so Why Doesn’t BDS Boycott Them?

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

If the Boycott Israel movement were intellectually honest, it would condemn the Nobel Prize judges for awarding Israelis. Let’s see how many pro-boycott academics will snub Israel’s universities.

Israel / News Briefs / Archaeology

Archaeologists Find Israel Was Land of Milk, Honey – and Cinnamon

By Jewish Press Staff

Cinnamon, once thought to have been carried on trade routes in ancient Israel, may have been made along the northern Israeli coast and not just in Africa and India, as previously thought, Israeli researchers told LiveScience. They analyzed 27 flasks from archaeological sites in Israel dating back 3,000 years and found that the compound that […]

Israel / News Briefs / Health and Living

Israeli Team Discovers Stem Cell "Bodyguards"

By Malkah Fleisher

A research team headed by Professor Tsvee Lapidot of Israel’s Weizmann Institute’s immunology Department has discovered that the body’s precious stem cells – special bodies which can morph into many different types in order to provide vital services to the body in cases of need – have a little help in the immune system.

Israel / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Three Israeli Universities Rank in Top 100

By Jewish Press Staff

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (#53), the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (#78), and the Weizmann Institute of Science (#93) ranked in the top 100 universities in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's authoritative 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities. Significantly, this is the first time that more than one Israeli university made the top 100.

Israel

Israeli Scientists Find Way to Delay Cell Death

By Jewish Press Staff

Israeli Researchers have discovered a protein that is central to delaying cell death, which “could lead to new approaches to treating cancer.” Programmed cell death, or Apoptosis, is a critical defense mechanism against the development of abnormal cells like cancer.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter II

By Ruchama Feuerman

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