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The University and the East China New University (ECNU) of Shanghai inaugurated a joint Shanghai-Haifa research center in a festive ceremony. This is the first center of its kind in Shanghai for Israeli and Chinese academia, and it will enable researchers from both countries to submit research proposals to Chinese research funds. The Chinese government, who finances these funds, invests an estimated 40 billion dollars in grants each year.

It seems that “seasonal depression” influences the price of shares in the stock exchange: shares that have been issued in the fall and winter, when the days are shorter and…

An impressive achievement for Dr. Shlomo Wagner from the Department of Neurobiology who, along with three other research partners from universities in Germany, the USA, and France, has been awarded a prestigious grant awarded by the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), a EU-funded organization which encourages ground-breaking research in science. The aim of their study: deciphering the action mechanism in the brain of the hormone oxytocin which is responsible for social communication. The research grant awarded to the four is in the sum of $1.3 million.

Could used coffee grounds be good for your plants? University of Haifa scientists are planning to answer that question. Researchers at the Kadas Green Roofs Ecology Research Center, operating under…

One in three patients aged 70 and older who are independent in their daily functioning and are admitted for acute conditions, like pneumonia, are discharged from the hospital with functional decline and around one in two report a decline in functioning a month after their discharge, according to a new study conducted by the University of Haifa. “A patient who is admitted for a serious illness, like complications from pneumonia or exacerbation of a heart condition, expects to leave the hospital in a better state than the one s/he entered, but in practice this isn’t always the case,” say Dr. Anna Zisberg and Dr. Efrat Shadmi from the Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, who conducted the study, which was recently published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 

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