Tel Aviv University, Israel - Human spinal cord implant helps mice walk again [Advanced Science News, February 2022]

Title:

Human spinal cord implant helps mice walk again 

 

Author:

Victoria Corless

Published:

Advanced Science News, 7 February 2022

https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/human-spinal-cord-implant-helps-mice-walk-again/

From the article:

A new spinal cord implant was used to heal a severed spine, offering hope that these types of injuries can one day become treatable. Trauma and injury to the spinal cord can have life changing effects. While the degree of severity varies depending on the initial injury, the more severe the damage, the poorer the prognosis with few effective treatment options. But the future is looking brighter with a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University reporting a new spinal cord implant that helps regrow damaged neuronal tissue.

 

Alzheimer's can be 'stalled or reversed' using oxygen [The National News, September 2021]

Title:

Alzheimer's can be 'stalled or reversed' using oxygen

Author:

Tim Kiek

Published:

The National News, 10 September 2021 [updated 15 September 2021]

https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2021/09/10/alzheimers-can-be-stalled-or-reversed-using-oxygen/

 

From the article:

Alzheimer's disease can be effectively treated by giving oxygen to patients in pressurised chambers, a study from Tel Aviv University suggests.

 

Tel Aviv University - Human ageing process biologically reversed in world first

Title:

Human ageing process biologically reversed in world first

 

Author:

Sarah Knapton

 

Published:

Yahoo!News, 18 November 2020

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From the article:

Now scientists at Tel Aviv University have shown that giving pure oxygen to older people while in a hyperbaric chamber increased the length of their telomeres by 20 per cent, a feat that has never been achieved before.

Tel Aviv University - 6,500-year-old metalworkers: Humanity’s 1st smelting furnaces found in Israel?

Title:

6,500-year-old metalworkers: Humanity’s 1st smelting furnaces found in Israel?

 

Author:

Amanda Borschel-Dan

 

Published:

The Times of Israel, 4 October 2020

https://www.timesofisrael.com/evidence-of-first-metallurgy-furnaces-from-6500-years-ago-found-in-beersheba/?mc_cid=d648381bcc&mc_eid=28489aa4bd

 

From the article:

A new archaeological study shows that even some 6,500 years ago, Israel was already a start-up nation — complete with a metallurgy R&D hub in Beersheba. Salvage excavations in the Negev Desert capital in 2017 revealed 6,500-year-old copper smelting workshops using the earliest-known evidence of furnaces instead of small portable crucibles for metallurgy.

 

Tel Aviv University & University of Haifa - World’s 1st necklace? Prehistoric painted shells, once on twine, found in Israel

Title:
World’s 1st necklace? Prehistoric painted shells, once on twine, found in Israel

Author:
Amanda Borschel-Dan

Published:
The Times of Israel, 9 July 2020
https://www.timesofisrael.com/worlds-1st-necklace-prehistoric-painted-shells-once-on-twine-found-in-israel/

From the article:
Experiments on 160,000-year-old clam shell fossils in northern caves indicate they are earliest examples of shell beads strung for display on the human body, Israeli scientists say.

Sometime around 160,000 to 120,000 years ago, early man began to string together painted shells and display them, according to a new international, interdisciplinary study published in the open-sourced PLOS One journal this week.

Scientists detect widespread structures near Earth’s core - first comprehensive view of the core-mantle boundary over a wide area

Title:
Scientists detect widespread structures near Earth’s core

Published:
National Herald, 13 June 2020
https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/science-and-tech/scientists-detect-widespread-structures-near-earths-core

From the article:
Analysing thousands of recordings of seismic waves, or sound waves travelling through the Earth, scientists have detected widespread, heterogenous structures - areas of unusually dense, hot rock - at the core-mantle boundary than previously known.