A new technology enables the use of nano-particles to assist the body's own immune system to fight cancer. The technology, developed by a research team at Bar-Ilan University, uses nano-particles to eliminate obstacles in the malignant tumor’s environment that impede the normal activity of natural killer cells (a special sub-type of white blood cells called lymphocytes).

Dr. Gideon Elazar, of the East Asian study track in Bar-Ilan University’s Multidisciplinary Humanities Program, talks about the man whose mark is still visible from east to west.

On August 26, the world celebrates International Dog Day. Dr. Anat Ben-Yonatan writes about the special status of the dog in Israel.

Anat is a Human-Animal relations researcher; co-founder and co-chair of the community for human-animal studies in Israel (HASI); and a Research Fellow at The Coller-Menmon Program for Animal Rights and Welfare in Tel Aviv University, who wrote her PhD dissertation at Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Bar-Ilan University has been awarded a €3.6 million Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s (EMJM) grant for a groundbreaking Brain and Data Science graduate program. This is the first time an Israeli university has won this prestigious grant.