Known in France as "The National Holiday" (Fête Nationale), Bastille Day is a French national holiday commemorating the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, a major event of the French Revolution. Professor Silvia Adler, of Bar-Ilan University's Department of French Culture, explains the events that competed for the title of national holiday and what attracted the revolutionaries to the Bastille.
Bar-Ilan University researchers have developed a new, focus-free technique for creating chemical maps using x-ray fluorescence. The approach offers fast, high-resolution measurements, which could be useful for analyzing chemical composition for a range of applications in biomedicine, materials science, archeology, art and industry.
One hundred and five graduates of Bar-Ilan University's Azrieli Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee received their MD degrees at an exciting ceremony that took place on July 4 at the Faculty of Medicine's campus in Safed.
The new doctors are the sixth graduating class of Bar-Ilan's medical school. Since its founding ten years ago, the medical school has trained 640 doctors, 20% of whom currently work in northern Israel.
The US-based Lupus Research Alliance has awarded its prestigious Global Team Science Award to an international team of scientists, including Dr. Nissan Yissachar, of the Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University, and leading scientists from Munster University (Germany), Harvard, Yale and Cornell Universities (USA) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel).
A new study from the University of Southern California (USC) and Bar-Ilan University, one of the first to test the relationship using real money, showed participants who gave away more money scored significantly lower on cognitive tests known to be sensitive to Alzheimer’s disease than those who gave less.
Bar-Ilan University partnered with the Institute for Yiddish Research in Argentina for the first time for an international seminar recently held in Buenos Aires entitled "The Chronotope of Yiddish: Language, Space and Time".
This week Bar-Ilan University President Prof. Arie Zaban addressed the ARC Summit convening top representatives of academia, medical centers, startup companies, corporate companies, and venture capital firms from around the world. The gathering, held in Tel Aviv, was hosted by Sheba Medical Center.
On July 5, 1996, the sheep Dolly came into the world. She was the first mammal to be cloned using the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer, in which a donor nucleus from a somatic (body) cell is implanted in an enucleated oocyte (egg cell). Dr. Nitzan Gonen, of BIU’s Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, writes about the sheep and the research that made history.
Dr. Ayal Hendel, of Bar-Ilan University's Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, is part of a European consortium that has been awarded a grant of more than €6 million to assess the efficacy and safety of genome editing approaches for sickle cell disease.
