Prof. Assaf Distelfeld, Director of the Institute of Evolution, took part in a major international study that set out to decipher the complex genetic code of 15 bread wheat varieties…
As global temperatures rise, insect populations have expanded to new regions and reproduce more rapidly – making them a serious threat to cultivated wheat. A new study led by University…
The University of Haifa is grateful to Mr. Dov Shafir, longstanding friend and supporter of the University of Haifa, for his generous gift to the Maritime Policy & Strategy Research…
An archaeological dig in the Golan Heights found ruins of the area’s oldest known fortified settlement that date back to between the 11th and 9th centuries B.C.E. The dig’s co-director, Barak…
An international study led by Dr. Hadas Okon-Singer, Head of the Cognition Emotion Interaction Lab, set out to identify whether the sense of anxiety experienced by arachnophobes (individuals with an extreme…
A team of researchers led by Dr. Shani Stern, head of the Precision Disease Modeling Lab at the Sagol Department of Neurobiology, created a large computer simulation to study different…
A new study has found that the interferon beta (IFN-ẞ) protein plays an important role in limiting the immune system's role in inflammation and preventing deleterious outcomes of infection and…
A unique study has for the first time documented the common process of a sequential feather replacement (feather molting) found among modern birds in a winged dinosaur dating back 120…
A new study published recently in the journal Current Biology suggested that during the course of evolution, most animal species on Earth lost the ability to synthesize cholesterol autonomously. Cholesterol is a…
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