The Blavatnik Family Foundation is offering Tel Aviv University an additional $16 million grant to further the development of their Blavatnik Initiative, which has already established five centers at the school.

The research society based in Germany is looking for innovative Israeli companies and researchers to cooperate with and fund.

Mothers who live near green spaces deliver babies with significantly higher birth weights, according to a new study by Ben Gurion University.

Will fish disappear by the year 2050? According to one UN report, the disappearance of fish and the collapse of the marine ecosystem is a very real possibility, but now researchers from Tel Aviv University have discovered what causes mass fish deaths and how they might be prevented.

Over five billion people have access to a mobile phone, but not a physician. This statement is particularly true in the developing world, which is why Israeli company MobileOCT has created a mobile- phone attachment that can screen for cancer.

What if reading glasses could be made obsolete using a mobile eye-training game over a period of three months? This may sound like a ridiculous proposition, but it's the way GlassesOff is training 40-60 year-olds to ditch their reading glasses for good.

Kidneys were long believed to be static organs that don't change, but now Israeli and American researchers have discovered that parts of the kidney can actually regenerate themselves, making the team of researchers hopeful that kidney transplants may soon be a thing of the past.

Researchers at Ben Gurion University have discovered the incredible climate-conscious way that scorpions construct their desert burrows, with complex mechanisms to prepare themselves, physically and mentally, for the nighttime hunt.

Israeli researchers from the country's leading universities are making game-changing breakthroughs in discovering the science behind the Parkinson's disease mystery that affects 500,000 new Americans each year.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso signed the EU's Horizon 2020 agreement on Sunday, marking the beginning of a billion-euro partnership in the funding of research and innovation.

Tel Aviv University professor has uncovered a protein that may protect brain cells from harm by dementia-based diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

A new study from Tel Aviv University may be one of the most important discoveries in the field of neurodegenerative disease. Researchers found that a phenomenon thought to be the cause of Huntington's disease is actually one of the body's defense mechanism.

Speaking two languages fluently is not only a great advantage when traveling and in the business world; a recent study from the University of Haifa shows that being bilingual also increases mental flexibility.

As diabetes grows more rampant and threatens to affect one in three Americans in less than four decades, it is no wonder that extensive research is being done to treat and prevent the condition. In Israel, two researchers have made significant advancement in treating type I and detecting type II diabetes.

Israeli researcher Dr. Regina Golan-Gertsl was already researching cancer, but when she lost her mother to brain cancer – she focused her efforts to find a cure and has now made a breakthrough discovery.