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 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 The United States has little to worry about when it comes to the possibility of an Ebola virus outbreak here, according to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ebola researcher Dr. Leslie Lobel: It’s not airborne, it requires direct contact with an infected human or animal,Continue 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 Linda Gradstein, The Media Line [Beersheva, Israel] — The eager students and their projects are all over campus — some with posters, some with models, and some with prototypes. “This system works in conjunction with your air conditioning system,” Idan Admon, a student in electrical engineering said Line enthusiasticallyContinue 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
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
