Neurons are the fundamental units of the brain and nervous system, the cells responsible for receiving sensory input from the external world, for sending motor commands to our muscles, and for transforming and relaying the electrical signals at every step in between. Neurons, also called nerve cells, are composed of three main parts: the cell body, the dendrites and the axon -- a long, thin extension that is responsible for communicating with other cells.

The biological clock is an internal and independent mechanism that dictates daily rhythm, thus enabling an organism to gauge daily and seasonal signals and live in sync with the rhythm of nature, while maintaining timing capabilities that are essential to carrying out important physiological and behavioral processes. For corals, includes breaking down sugar and synthesizing fats, opening and closing their hunting tentacles, and more.

Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine and the Russel Berrie Galilee Diabetes SPHERE project initiated community testing for the early detection of the disease in November – National Diabetes Awareness Month.  As part of this initiative, a mobile diabetes-testing clinic of the Israel Diabetes Association came to the Bar-Ilan campus in Ramat Gan and performed free testing without prior registration.

A series of studies on milk donations of bereaved mothers finds that the process of pumping and donating has therapeutic value, creating meaning in post-traumatic loss and growth

Dr. Chana Kranzler, of Bar-Ilan University's Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, and Dr. Yotam Kaplan, of the Faculty of Law, are the recipients of prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants totaling three million euros, the ERC has announced.

Bar-Ilan University welcomed a delegation of high-ranking officials from leading universities in Australia. The delegation is on a visit to universities across the country coordinated by Universities Australia, the equivalent Down Under to Israel's Council for Higher Education. Their visit to Bar-Ilan was organized by the University's International School.