Yeshiva University News

Weeks after finding out her beloved school was set to close, Shoshana S. Cardin School sophomore Lianna Reisman was listening to her iPod when "Keep Your Head Up," a song by The Maccabeats, shuffled its way onto her playlist.

Vitamin C can kill drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria in laboratory culture, according to a new, surprising discovery by experts at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

Main Category: Pancreatic Cancer Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry ; Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 22 May 2013 - 11:00 PDT Using bacteria to ferry radioisotopes commonly used in cancer therapy directly into pancreatic cancer cells in mice, researchers in the US were able dramatically to reduce the number of secondary ... (more)

AndyKrish writes "A BBC story reports that scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University found Vitamin C kills drug resistant tuberculosis .

Rabbi Joshua Fass, a Yeshiva University alumnus and executive director of Nefesh B'Nefesh, will deliver the keynote address and receive an honorary doctorate at YU's 82nd Commencement Ceremony on Thursday, May 30, at the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, NJ.

Dr. William Jacobs, Jr. has determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria in laboratory culture.

FASEB MARC Program has announced the travel award recipients for The Society for Developmental Biology 72nd Annual Meeting in Cancun, Mexico from June 16-20, 2013.

Twenty-one measles cases occurred in Borough Park and one case in Williamsburg so far this year, affecting residents in those areas' ultra-orthodox Jewish communities, according to the city's Health Department.

My actual name apparently didn't matter. In the course of three hours on Friday morning I was given several nicknames.

For a dose of girl power, 12-year-old Shayna Lopatin and her friends at Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel look to contemporary superstars like Hillary Rodham Clinton and Lady Gaga.

Cancer chemotherapy can cause peripheral neuropathy - nerve damage often resulting in pain and muscle weakness in the arms and legs.

But that's how Johns Hopkins University post-doctoral researcher Eran Elhaik describes a group of widely respected geneticists, including Harry Ostrer, professor of p athology and genetics at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine and author of the 2012 book "Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People." For years now, the ... (more)

Cancer chemotherapy can cause peripheral neuropathy-nerve damage often resulting in pain and muscle weakness in the arms and legs.

With the month of Iyar here and the joyous celebrations it contains, it is hard not to look to the past and see how far we have come.

A group of researchers has just identified all of the genetic mutations that cause blood cancer acute myeloid leukemia , which could help drive further research for newer and better treatments for AML.

While the search continues for the Fountain of Youth, researchers may have found the body's "fountain of aging": the brain region known as the hypothalamus.

According to Chabad.org, every year on the holiday of Shavuot we renew our acceptance of G-d's gift and G-d "re-gives" the Torah to us.

It has been more than four months since Yeshiva University hired an international law firm to investigate allegations of emotional, physical and sexual abuse at a Y.U.-run high school.

But unlike other Orthodox Jewish girls their age, those at Anshe Sholom have a trailblazer in their own lives: Rachel Finegold.

"If you misread facial expressions, you're in social trouble, no matter what other social skills you have," says Emory University psychologist Steve Nowicki, who developed the tests used in the study.