Multidisciplinary projects, including studies on autism, cancers and trauma, get NIS 60 million ($17 million) in grants from Israel Precision Medicine Partnership initiative

Ben Gurion University team maps roofs across entire southern city of Kiryat Malachi with 97% accuracy

Researchers at Harvard, MIT and other institutions examine almost 4,000 places worldwide; find that heat, humidity are associated with lower infection rate

Findings could help distinguish coronavirus patients from those with colds or flu, researchers say

Hydroxychloroquine, touted by US president as effective COVID-19 treatment, doesn't affect odds of patients dying or requiring artificial ventilation in Columbia University study

Financial assistance equivalent to 5.5% of GDP puts country way behind nations with similar economies, study finds

Ben-Gurion University researchers say paintable and sprayable material is made of metal ions and polymer nanoparticles that are strongly antiviral and antibacterial

Weizmann Institute study published in Nature; all of the brain-injured patients who responded to odors in the test regained consciousness, researchers say

Bar-Ilan researchers electrify water to produce hypo chloric acid at defined level of acidity; patented method has not been published in science journal or subject to peer review

Some 30 projects will be funded $50,000-$200,000 apiece; researchers will share their findings in a bid to tackle the deadly pandemic