An Israeli research team finds a stem cell cure for macular degeneration.

When Dr. Ada Yonath was asked to place a bet on her chances to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, she decided to answer the question with a question: “Do you think I should go to the hairdresser?”

A group of Israeli scientists have proven that DNA evidence can be faked and even created, all without tissue samples.

This month marks the six-year anniversary of Christopher Reeve’s visit to Israel for a tour of the country’s advanced stem-cell research facilities. What has changed today?

A delegation of Senegalese doctors arrived in Israel last week to learn special circumcision techniques they can take home to help fight AIDS in Africa.

Foods high in carbohydrates — like white bread — can be devastating to the health of your heart. Now a Tel Aviv University researcher can watch the damage as it happens.

Desert Pavement in the Rub’ al-Khali. Scale cube measures 1cm on a sidePhoto by Meteorite Recon on Wikimedia Commons. Used under Creative Commons License. Newspapers, among them the New York Daily News, reported today based on a report on LiveScience that scientists in the Negev have discovered the Earth’s oldest surface. What’s that, you say? [...]

Picture: Buckminsterfullerene C60, aka the “buckyball,” one focus of nanotechnology researchBy Michael Stroeck at Wikimedia Commons. Used under GNU License. NanoIsrael 2009, Israel’s first ever conference on nanotechnology, took place yesterday and today in Jerusalem. Organizers, among them the Israel National Nanotechnology Initiative, wanted an opportunity to highlight the amazing advances being made in the [...]

Photo: Wikimedia Commons With today marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, we thought it would be fitting to note the impact his theory of evolution has had on research in Israel. Of course, the theory of evolution underlies much biology research today, but this is, after all, a blog exploring the latest in [...]

Photo: Getty Images Ynet becomes the latest to report on a new technological breakthrough that we just couldn’t skip over. Haifa’s own Argo Medical Technologies has developed a “skeleton that can help paraplegics navigate their daily lives pretty regularly.  While the product isn’t yet available for commercial sale, you can watch the product in action [...]