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Research for medical rarities — done with a kickstart

2015-03-13
By: Federation
On: March 13, 2015
In: Israel: To Your Health

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

neanderthal

Watch who you’re calling a Neanderthal!

2015-01-05
By: Federation
On: January 5, 2015
In: Israel: To Your Health

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

Bellevue’s genealogy sleuths share their family dramas

2014-12-11
By: Federation
On: December 11, 2014
In: Local News

By Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor, JTNews The only thing missing was the campfire on December 8 when 30 people gathered with the Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State to practice one of the oldest arts in the world: Storytelling. The event, the first of its kind in many years,Continue Reading

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