Tel Aviv University (TAU) has announced that in 2026 the University will award an Honorary Doctorate to Einav Zangauker in recognition of her uncompromising, courageous, and inspiring struggle over nearly two years, together with the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum and the broader public, for the return to Israel of all hostages. On October… Read More
Scientists from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have introduced an innovative gene therapy method to treat impairments in hearing and balance caused by inner ear dysfunction. According to the researchers, the treatment constitutes an improvement over existing strategies, demonstrating enhanced efficiency and holding promise for treating a wide range of mutations that cause hearing loss. The study… Read More
A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) reveals that fruit bats employ a variety of strategies in their competition with other animals for food. The research team examined bat behavior in the presence of black rats, which vie for the same food sources. They found that the bats’ behavior changes with the seasons and… Read More
Researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have discovered a biological mechanism that boosts the production of myelin, the fatty substance that insulates nerve fibers (axons) and enables rapid, efficient transmission of electrical signals between neurons in the brain and the body. Their findings may serve as the basis for developing innovative treatments for severe neurological… Read More
A new study from a Tel Aviv University (TAU) researcher reveals that most massive stars formed in the early universe were born as binary systems, similar to the massive stars in our own galaxy. The research team says that these findings provide the first strong evidence that massive binary stars were common in the early… Read More
A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) shows that during the cosmic “dark ages,” dark matter formed dense clumps throughout the universe, which pulled in hydrogen gas and caused it to emit intense radio waves. The study demonstrates for the first time the insights that can be obtained from detecting radio waves coming to… Read More
A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Dana Dwek Children’s Hospital in Tel Aviv has shown that disease can be prevented in children with obesity by maintaining a low percentage of fat in the liver. The researchers used innovative methods to examine 31 Israeli children with obesity in an attempt to understand… Read More
Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed a new approach for using locked nucleic acids (LNAs), a particularly stable type of RNA, to treat inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Their findings indicated improvement in all markers of systemic inflammation with no side effects. According to the researchers, this innovative… Read More