While it is a somewhat known fact that people who lose their ability to see have their other senses heightened, it is still no replacement for actual sight. However, researchers at the Hebrew University have developed a breakthrough app that allows the blind to "see" using music.

This year's winner of the Israel Prize for Medicine is professor Marta Weinstock-Rosin, who developed the first and only FDA-approved skin patch to treat dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease.

This fact surprised us too, but according to the World Health Organization, depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. While previous studies focused on the brain's neurons to find treatments, a recent Israeli study showed that the answer might lie in other brain cells.

As the human brain gets older, it is increasingly prone to neurodegenerative disease. If only it were possible to simply stop the brain from aging. As it turns out, it might just be, as recent study by Hebrew University researchers and an Israeli startup has shown.

Using an IV on a child is a challenge for even the most trained of professionals. Sometimes, it can take up to 10 times to get it right. A group of Israeli medical professionals and designers have come up with an innovative solution that gets it right on the first try.

It's a classic ER scene. Patrick Dempsey's character Dr. Derek Shepherd is performing an emergency intubation on a patient who can't breathe. The procedure is both unpleasant and risky. If this scene were being filmed today, Dr. Shepherd would probably be using a system developed by Israeli students that may revolutionize intubation.

Some diseases are accompanied by a collapse of the immune system, causing them to spread faster. A recent research has shown that this is a result of a malfunction in an otherwise positive process.

As part of international initiative Coursera, the Hebrew University will offer an online course in brain research. Students from around the world signed up, including scholars from Iran, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

Malaria is a deadly disease which kills over a million people worldwide every year. The high death toll is due to the fact that some strains are able to hide their activity from the human immune system. A new discovery at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, however, may be key in defeating this elusive killer.

Are facial expressions the best way to determine a person's emotional state? A new study conducted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that in cases of extreme emotions, it is body language, and not facial expression, that truly reveals how a person is feeling.

A major setback when studying cells in the human body is that many methods of researching cell-division kill the cells examined. Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found a way to study the cells without killing them – by making them fluorescent.

Modern psychology has always operated under the assumption that a person must be conscious to solve mathematical problems or understand sentences they're reading. However, a new study conducted at the Hebrew University could change that assumption completely.

Though a cure for blindness has not yet been found, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered that by using special sensory equipment, called SSDs, the blind could actually "see" their surroundings using a camera that converts a visual feed to an audio one.

Television series like CSI would have us believe that nothing is easier than gathering fingerprints at crime scenes. In reality, finding prints on many surfaces, such as paper, is a near impossible task. Hebrew University researchers have now invented a new way to produce clear and accurate prints, even off wet paper.

Many known drugs have serious side effects, which cause inflammatory and allergic reactions in patients. A researcher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a synthetic family of drugs which are highly efficient, yet have no known side effects.