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 An aerial view shows the Dome of the Rock in front and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Jerusalem, April 26, 2023.

Despite war, Israeli universities rise in global rankings, Hebrew University placed highest

 The Weizmann Institute is set to open a medical school in October of 2025.

Weizmann Institute to open medical school amid doctor shortage

 This composite image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant, was assembled by combining data from five telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum.

The stars align: Israeli researchers track a supernova in real time

Pictured: Supernova 2023ixf occurred in Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy. The image was made using telescope data on the nights of May 21, 22 and 23, 2023

A star is dead: Scientists watch supernova in real time

 (l-r) Ofir Raz, Prof. Amos Tanay, Dr. Yoav Mayshar and Dr. Yonatan Stelzer.

The bunny and the hourglass model: A new technique tracks earliest stages of embryonic development

Zebrafish pituitary, revealing its diverse cell populations: astroglial pituicytes (purple) and two different types of hormone-producing cells (red and green)

Weizmann Institute team finds new insight to pituitary disorders

 (l-r) Ariel Tennenhouse, Lev Khmelnitsky, Prof. Sarel Fleishman, Razi Khalaila

Researchers find new way to make animal antibodies safe for humans

 Elderly couple, illustrative

Weizmann Inst. develops first ‘cellular time machine’ to measure body changes

 Painting of woman –  Researchers discover that just like in mice, human tears contain a chemical signal that blocks conspecific male aggression.

Exposure to tears leads to lower aggression in males

 Lung tissue of a diabetic mouse (right) contains fewer immune cells (small purple dots) than that of a non-diabetic animal (left).

Why people with diabetes are more prone to respiratory risk - study

 Scanning electron microscope images of the enamel layer enveloping mouse teeth. Top: Normal enamel matrix. Bottom: Enamel structure that developed abnormally in the wake of attacks by autoantibodies against enamel proteins.

Newly discovered autoimmune disorder disrupts tooth enamel development

 Papua New Guinea opens embassy in Jerusalem.

14 Days: New Embassy

Tissues from mice transplanted with lung cancer cells. When PSME4 levels are high (left, top and bottom), the tumors grow bigger, cancer-fighting killer T cells (white) are reduced (top) and regulatory T cells (green) that inhibit the immune response are more abundant (bottom), compared with regular

Avoiding detection: How cancers evolve to escape immune system responses

Eynat Guez, Eyal Naveh, and Shikma Bressler.

50 Influential Jews: The Protest Leaders - No. 4

 Israeli scientists grow human embryo models from stem cells

Israeli scientists grow human embryo models from stem cells

 An illustrative image of a virus.

Israeli scientists find forgotten immune strategy to fight viruses - study

 A campus view of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, on February 19, 2019.

Where do Israeli universities rank among the world's elite schools?

 Stress (illustrative).

Male, female brain cells react differently to stress - Israeli study