By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist This latest research study from Tel Aviv University is pioneering because it’s one of a handful of studies in the world to have successfully used crowdfunding to finance the research. The study is also counter-intuitive and atypical because TAU scientist, Dr. Noam Shomron, theContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist Most mothers know that singing to their baby can be a special time between mother and child and that they don’t have to sound like Barbra Streisand or Taylor Swift to do it. But if your new bundle of joy was born prematurely, as,Continue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist The next time you question someone’s place on the evolutionary chain by calling that person a Neanderthal, it might be wiser to look elsewhere, a team of scientists led by Israeli researchers have found. As it turns out, we humans share 99.84 percent ofContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Each year, many heart disease patients in the U.S. and around the world die waiting for a heart transplant because there are just not enough organ donors to serve all of the patients on waiting lists. Tissue engineering is now becoming a real optionContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is now epidemic, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev virologist Dr. Leslie Lobel told the Jewish Sound. But what really worries the researcher, who has been working with three deadly viruses in Uganda for 12 years, is thatContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist The evidence that our sleep time and quality is a significant factor in our health continues to mount. In May 2014, Israel: to Your Health reported that researchers at the Rambam Medical Campus in Haifa saw the mice in their study published in theContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent As Jews worldwide welcome the New Year with prayers to be entered in the “eternal” Book of Life, Israeli scientists at Tel Aviv University found that religious observance in the lives of teens may play a significant role in preventing suicide in those whoContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist Since 2002, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev virologist Dr. Leslie Lobel has been traveling to Africa more than four times a year testing the blood of Ebola-infected survivors. Lobel is trying to figure out exactly why the more than 120 subjects in his studies eitherContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University, the University of Haifa and the Goldschleger Eye Research Institute at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, found what they’ve called a “foolproof” method of diagnosing children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Given ADHD’s uncodified set of symptoms, itsContinue Reading
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 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Last year, BGU toured President Obama through its brain research labs after the president launched his BRAIN initiative, BrainContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist As part of his U. S. brain initiative in 2014, President Obama visited Israel and learned about groundbreaking brain research developed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers. This is part one of a two-part look at some of those technologies. He’s Ben-Gurion UniversityContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent It’s happened to all of us. Whether we drank too much coffee before bedtime, ate too much rich or spicy food, exercised too close to lights out, or consumed too much alcohol, we toss and turn, and maybe fall asleep for a while beforeContinue Reading
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 news from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher Dr. Eli Lewis. The most recent results from Phase 1 of Lewis’s second round of clinical trialsContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Columnist It’s only a tiny percentage point of difference, but new diabetes research from Tel Aviv University shows that a seemingly insignificant difference in blood sugar readings could buy you a lot of valuable time — and maybe even save your life. In January 2014, researchersContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist It’s called “microencapsulation” and by the year 2025, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, World Hunger, and other international food programs plan to combat world hunger and malnutrition by fortifying some of the most widely used condiments and seasonings with micronutrients and vitamins. The WHO’sContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist Now might be the time to pitch the Pop Tarts, toss the Twinkies, and dump the Ding Dongs if you’re grabbing them in the morning as you head out the door. Three 2013 studies from Tel Aviv University found that subjects lost more weight,Continue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist When it comes to finding a cure or even understanding why someone develops multiple sclerosis, scientists in Israel, who in 1964 were among the first in the world to identify the therapeutic effects of compounds in marijuana, could transform the face of the diseaseContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist If you’re baffled by Initiative Measure No. 522, the proposed genetically modified food labeling ballot measure in the upcoming Nov. 2013 Washington State election, it might be instructive to explore Israel’s agricultural research and its regulation of GM foods. It may not necessarily clarifyContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent Millions who suffer from nerve damage and even paralysis may soon be able to take a heretofore impossible giant leap forward after the results of two successful Tel Aviv University studies — one using a gel inside a biodegradable nerve wall implant, and theContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist As the Jewish community enters the New Year and atones for the “not-so-nice” acts of thoughtlessness or unkindness we might have done to others, it might also be a good time to look at what we do to ourselves. A growing body of clinicalContinue Reading
