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Well-known drug (AAT) could overcome obstacles to islet transpla...

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Tue, 10/28/2008 - 23:00

(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel have demonstrated that treating diabetic animals with alpha-1-antitrypsin following an islet transplantation procedure eliminates the inflammation that causes islet transplants to fail.


 

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers help find that hy...

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Wed, 10/22/2008 - 23:00

(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Hypnosis can induce "synesthetic" experiences -- where one sense triggers the involuntary use of another -- within an average brain, according to a new study in the journal Psychological Science, the premiere publication of the Association for Psychological Society.


 

Microsoft and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev announce agreem...

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Wed, 07/02/2008 - 23:00

(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev today announced it has reached an agreement with Microsoft's R&D Center and Microsoft Israel for joint research projects and other collaborative activities.


 

A bright future for plastics -- robot 'skin,' flexible laptops a...

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Sun, 06/29/2008 - 23:00

(Institute of Physics) July's edition of Physics World includes an in-depth feature by three Israeli researchers, Marianna Khorzov and David Andelman, from the school of physics and astronomy at Tel Aviv University, and Rafi Shikler, from the electrical and computer engineering department at Ben Gurion University, about exciting developments in plastic electronics engineering.