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Ebola
October 29, 20140

Ebola: Hitting the snooze button on a wakeup call

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is now epidemic, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev virologis

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Ebola virus
September 19, 20140

Search for Ebola cure comes from Israel

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist Since 2002, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev virologist Dr. Leslie Lobel has been traveling to Africa mor

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Ebola virus
August 14, 20140

The fight against Ebola: A strong defense makes a strong offense

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The United States has little to worry about when it comes to the possibility of an Ebola virus outbreak

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August 6, 20140

When the blood-brain barrier gets breached

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist This is the second of a two-part column on “BRAINS@BGU,” featuring some of the latest brain research from B

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June 26, 20140

Israeli engineering students look to go commercial

By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line [Beersheva, Israel] — The eager students and their projects are all over campus — some with posters, some with m

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June 19, 20142

Gray and white matters: Mapping autism in the brain

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist As part of his U. S. brain initiative in 2014, President Obama visited Israel and learned about groundbreak

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March 24, 20140

More good news on the diabetes front

Janis Siegel, JTNews Columnist If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes within the last four years, there’s more good new

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