Biology

Searching for hope in an age of extinction

Conservation scientists understand that very rarely extinction is not always the final chapter

Prof. Uri Roll: "The love of nature was already there."
Israel's science teams conclude olympiad season with record 26 medals.

Israeli students earn 13 medals, including five gold, at global Science Olympiads

Making Parkinson's cure personal: TechBio co-founder Micha Breakstoneand developmental biologist Olivier Pourquie.

AI meets biology: How cellular intelligence is redefining stem cell therapy

An illustrative image of a mouth swab for DNA testing

Oral inflammation may impair female fertility, new Israeli research shows


Israeli researchers measure interaction between immune cells and cancer cells

A new technology developed at Bar-Ilan University will help oncologists and other medical professionals to determine the best way to treat patients.

 Photo (left to right): Tal Goldberg, Dr. Shahar Alon, Michal Danino, Prof. Gonen Singer

What causes bookworms to digest old books?

The same thing that attracts silverfish to old books causes celiac disease, say scientists.

 A book containing George Washington’s personal copies of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, displayed at Christie’s auction house in New York.

Self-dyeing, plastic-free vegan leather can be grown from bacteria, study shows

Their new process could also theoretically be adapted to have bacteria grow materials with various patterns and vibrant colors and to make more sustainable alternatives to other textiles.

The self-dyeing vegan, plastic-free leather is  a step forward in the quest for more sustainable fashion. (Illustrative).

TAU researchers explain how viruses decide whether to become good or bad

In an arms race between bacteria and viruses, the submicroscopic infectious agents improve their decision making by adopting defense systems built against them

 This digitally-colorized scanning electron micrograph depicts four magenta-colored, spherical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria in the process of being phagocytized by a blue-colored human white blood cells in this undated handout photo.

U of Haifa finds 'groundbreaking discovery' in Parkinson's research

A new study undertaken at the University of Haifa has, for the first time, found a connection between PD and the ECM in the brain.

 Professor Shani Stern

The bunny and the hourglass model: A new technique tracks earliest stages of embryonic development

An innovative Weizmann Institute technique for tracking the earliest stages of embryonic development is applied for the first time in rabbits.

 (l-r) Ofir Raz, Prof. Amos Tanay, Dr. Yoav Mayshar and Dr. Yonatan Stelzer.

Weizmann Inst. develops first ‘cellular time machine’ to measure body changes

researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot have developed the first technique to measure cellular changes in the body over time.

 Elderly couple, illustrative

Emojis don't reflect natural biodiversity, biologists complain

The researchers say that having access to biodiverse emojis is not just for sending jokes to each other, but crucial for online discussions of biodiversity and conservation.

 An Emoji character is seen during a photocall for the film "The Emoji Movie".

The pattern of buds on your tongue is as unique as your fingerprint

Scottish researchers use AI and 3D images to study papillae

 A fingerprint expert checks a fingerprint on a monitor at the attorney's general crime laboratory in Mexico City July 12, 2011.

Bottlenose dolphins’ electric sense could help them navigate the globe

Dolphins could use their electric sense to navigate the globe by magnetic map.

 A bottlenose dolphin (Dolly) resting her jaw on a bar ready to test her sensitivity to an electric field.