Winter Edition 2020

If you are like me, you’ve heard a lot lately about beginnings and endings. After all, we’ve just begun the 2020s, after ending a momentous decade. It’s the end of one era, and the start of a new one. This is true for me personally, as well. As most of you know, I am retiring this year. But I don’t think of this as an ending. I think of it as a new beginning, for me and for BSF.

An early pioneer in unlocking the mysteries of DNA, Dr. Howard “Haim” Cedar has devoted his life and career to studying how the cells within our bodies select the genetic information they need to function and ignore the rest of the genetic package...

When Prof. Shulamit Michaeli-Goldberg was a little girl, she wanted to be Marie Curie, the famed physicist who became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Her “dream job” was to have a lab where she would doggedly investigate complex theories in the hopes of making transformative scientific discoveries....

As tissues in the body fail or need replacing, a growing number of scientists are creating tissues in their labs that can help with ailments and even save lives when they are added to the body. For more than two decades, Prof. Shulamit Levenberg has been a trailblazer in this area...

As data becomes ever more crucial for all types of businesses, it’s no wonder that companies have rapidly adopted the practice of data-driven decision making (DDD). At the same time, what is the connection between data and the managers using that information? How can small to medium size companies – ones that often do not have the resources to hire teams of analysts – compete with larger firms using the same information?

…that joint NSF/BSF-funded research helped identify a potential new target in the fight against cancer? An international team of researchers, including NSF/BSF grantees from the U.S. and Israel, have discovered that a better understanding of a cancer-linked version of the protein mitoNEET can lead to new weapons for battling multiple…