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Cancer immunotherapy — empowering a patient’s own immune system to clear away tumors on its own — holds great promise for some patients. But for other patients, immunotherapy just doesn’t work.

What makes for a good dark matter detector? It has a lot in common with a good teleconference setup: You need a sensitive microphone and a quiet room.

Mirage News

Is the wanton killing of cells in autoimmune disease a case of mistaken identity, or does it arise from an important physiological service?

The Conversation

by David Greenberg, Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholar at Bar-Ilan University and Honorary Research Associate at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge

The model that the scientists developed is based on intermittent lockdown

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel have created a strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli that grows by consuming carbon dioxide instead of sugars or other organic molecules.

Israel Hayom

US-Israel program includes the National Science Foundation and the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation. The funds, which will be allocated over a period of five years, will facilitate dozens of research programs each year in a variety of fields, expanding on the handful of research programs currently being carried out.

The Times of Israel

MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund is calling for proposals for joint projects between MIT and Israeli university researchers in science, tech, math and engineering

Meet a graduate of Harvard and Stanford who is now working on his third degree at the Technion.

In a country of just 9 million people, Israel has quickly become one of the world’s true scientific powerhouses. The country ranked 10th in this year’s Bloomberg’s Innovation Index.

Ynet

במל”ג אמרו כי גובה המלגה לכל בתר-דוקטורט שיגיע לישראל מצפון אמריקה הוא 100 אלף דולרים לשנתיים. המלגה תיועד בין השאר למימון דמי קיום, מגורים, מסגרות חינוך לילדים, טיסות ועוד

Calcalist Tech

Israel partnered with media magnate Mortimer Zuckerman to finance a program aiming to convince dozens of post-doctoral students in American universities to relocate to Israel.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the launch of the “New York-Israel Commission,” which will be responsible for creating a framework to strengthen economic, academic and cultural ties between New York and Israel.

Jerusalem Post

The Mortimer B. Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program was launched at the official residence of the President of Israel. The first cohort of 14 Zuckerman Scholars began with the 2016–2017 academic year.