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Light pollution at night wrecks coral reproductive cycle

A new study led by researchers from Bar-Ilan University demonstrates how light pollution caused by artificial light at night (ALAN) disrupts the reproductive cycle of two coral species already under severe threat. Read More

Physics can solve key challenges facing AI, study finds

The field of physics could provide a solution to some of the key challenges encountered in the artificial intelligence field, according to new research from Bar-Ilan University. Read More

Winner of the “Ot Katan” Award for 2020

Prof. Rivka Tuval-Mashiach, director of the Graduate Program for Gender Studies and a senior faculty member at the Department of Psychology, has won the “Ot Katan” Award for 2020. She was granted the award in recognition of her combined efforts in academic and volunteer work, and in promoting social and gender justice, and healing. Read More

Breakdown of Gene Coordination During Aging Suggests a Substantial Challenge to Longevity

Although all humans share similar changes during aging such as gray hair, wrinkles, and a general decline in function, aging is considered to be the result of a cellular wear-and-tear process due to accumulated random damage, such as genetic mutations or DNA structural damage. Read More

Bar-Ilan doctoral student receives Google PhD Fellowship

Yanai Elazar, a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University, is the recipient of a Google PhD Fellowship for 2020. Elazar has been awarded the Fellowship in Natural Language Processing, a highly competitive category in which only four doctoral candidates from around the world were recognized. Read More

Prof. Hanoch Senderowitz Partners in EU Project in Drug Design Education and Innovation

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are becoming increasingly important for both basic and translational chemistry research. The Advanced Learning for Innovative Drug Discovery (AIDD) project, a new initiative based at the Helmholtz Zentrum München in Germany and funded by the European Union, will train PhD students in translational research for drug discovery and chemoinformatics. Prof. Hanoch Senderowitz, a leading expert in this expanding field from Bar-Ilan University, will take part in this novel project. Read More

Israeli Startup Offers Revolutionary Facemask Using Bar-Ilan U. Technology

Israeli start-up Sonovia has developed SonoMask, a facemask proven to eliminate 99% of COVID-19 particles. Using technology developed by Bar-Ilan University, SonoMask utilizes a process called cavitation, which involves using specialized machinery to emit sound waves that infuse proprietary chemical formulations into the woven fibers of textiles. With that, Sonovia positioned itself at the forefront of the fight to stop the pandemic. Watch the Sonovia interview on ILTV here. Read More

Bar-Ilan Prof. Shav-Tal Co-Leads $4 Million NIH Research on Nuclear Dynamics’ Impact on Gene Regulation

Prof. Yaron Shav-Tal, from the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, and colleagues from the United States will work to shed new light on nuclear dynamics and their impact on the biology of gene regulation. Read More

Children Hold Leaders Primarily Responsible, Not Entitled

Leaders are construed by young children as individuals whose position of power entails more responsibility, rather than more entitlement, relative to non-leaders, a new study finds. Important strides have been made in recent years in uncovering children’s knowledge about hierarchical social relationships. Much of these have focused on dominance, a hierarchy in which individuals defer to others out of fear or intimidation. Read More

Bar-Ilan University and Wolfson Medical Center sign cooperation agreement

Bar-Ilan University, which set up the entrepreneurship center, UnBox Ventures, a platform that creates, curates, and invests in startups founded by the university’s researchers and off-campus entrepreneurs, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Wolfson Medical Center, to establish joint ventures. Groups of researchers and physicians from both institutions will participate in a mentored entrepreneurship program as part of the collaboration, led by the UnBox team which is headed by Ariel Sella, a well-experienced entrepreneur who has four decades of experience in investment and management of startup companies in a variety of fields around the world. Read More (L-R) UnBox...

How is COVID-19 Affecting Holocaust Survivors?

A Bar-Ilan University study finds that the pandemic can echo past adversities and trigger amplified psychological reactions. Holocaust survivors have exhibited a wide range of emotional reactions to, and ways of dealing with, the COVID-19 pandemic. Some are dealing well with the current crisis while some experience considerable difficulties. The way they cope with the current crisis is largely derived from how they deal with their traumatic memories of the Holocaust. Read More

Is There a Biological Basis for Charismatic Leadership?

The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg inspired many around the world. Her passing prompted Dr. Ilanit Gordon, Director of the Social Neuroscience Lab in Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Psychology, to write a blog for Psychology Today about the special bond we form with leaders like Ginsburg. Read More

BIU Ranked Second in Israeli Student Satisfaction Survey

Bar-Ilan University ranked second in student satisfaction in the annual survey of the National Union of Israeli Students. Bar-Ilan received a high rating in surveys both among university students as well as among college and university students combined. Read More

Bar-Ilan studies how breast cancer patients gain weight during treatment

Some breast cancer patients tend to put on a few pounds after undergoing chemotherapy due to the presence of gut bacteria, bringing certain metabolic changes after treatment, according to Bar-Ilan University researchers. Read More

Researchers Use Gold Nanorods To Distinguish Between “Killer” and “Healer” Cells

Researchers have found a way to distinguish between M1 and M2 macrophage cells, identifying the “killer” and the “healer” cells. A team from Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan in Israel has illustrated a novel solution – using the scattering effect of Gold Nanorods. Read More

News Analysis: Israel faces soaring unemployment, but experts positive about outlook

Bar-Ilan University’s Prof. Elise Brezis, head of the Aharon Meir Center for Banking and Economic Policy, was asked for her opinion on this topic. Read More

Project Raphael Brings Improved Health to Disadvantaged Populations

Project Raphael, a novel social incubator for improving health in disadvantaged regions, is the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine’s flagship community initiative, aiming to create academic-community partnerships to define and address the region’s most pressing health needs. Project Raphael offers local community and health organizations an opportunity to define the most pressing problems in their communities, and to develop creative solutions. Read More

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Bar-Ilan University Helps Nazareth Combat Coronavirus

The city of Nazareth has been severely hit by the coronavirus with many of the city’s medical staff testing positive or being put in quarantine after exposure to confirmed patients. Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine has developed a platform that allows it to fulfill the needs of Nazareth when dealing with the coronavirus, all while teaching and training students. Read More

The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine in Safed is Expanding

The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University is in the midst of significant renewal and development. The land rights where an old Bezeq telephone company building was situated, a block from the current Azrieli campus in Safed, were purchased by BIU as part of the Faculty’s planned expansion. An Education Facility, to be constructed on the ruins of the recently-demolished building, will include 5,600 square meters of classrooms, laboratories, a state-of-the-art library, a gym, and an auditorium. Read More

A Quantum Leap in the Drug Development World

Microfluidic chips that simulate human tissue enable us to conduct medical experiments in ways that could not have been even imagined only a few years ago. Two leading Israeli researchers report from the turbulent Israeli front line of the global ‘organ-on-a-chip’ sector. Read More