Congratulations to Prof. Yuval Bitan, chair of BGU's Department of Health Policy and Management, on being named a 2026 Fellow of the International Ergonomics Association! 👏 The honor recognizes outstanding, sustained contributions to ergonomics and human factors worldwide.

an adaptive survival mechanism or trigger programmed cell death (apoptosis). The findings, published in Redox Biology, provide crucial mechanistic insights that could help overcome chemotherapy resistance in aggressive tumors.

Our researchers uncovered a redox-sensitive molecular switch that determines whether stressed cells survive or undergo programmed death. A new study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has identified a pivotal molecular switch that controls whether stressed human cells activate

2/ The study was led by Prof. Ami Sperber of our Faculty of Health Sciences, with colleagues at the University of North Carolina at @Chapel Hill and the University of Gothenburg. It could help lead to more personalised care in the future.

Billions live with stomach pain, bloating or constipation that standard tests can’t explain. A global study of 28,771 adults in 15 countries found that 4 in 10 met the criteria for at least one disorder of gut-brain interaction. 🧵

Congrats to our very own Prof. Adi Zitrin along with his collaborators Prof. Ivo Labbé (Swinburne University of Technology) and Prof. Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh) along with the 50+ research team members worldwide. 🌌

🔭 Peering into cosmic dawn: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope UNCOVER collaboration has just won the 2027 Berkeley Prize for revealing distant galaxies and black holes that shouldn't exist yet—and rewriting our understanding of the early universe.

The team: Samuel Oluwaseun Kolade, Prof. Avner Ronen and Prof. Ofer Dahan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Knud Erik Strøyberg Klint, GEO, Denmark; Christos Tsakiroglou, FORTH/ICE-HT, Greece.

“Forever chemicals” don’t stay put. At a Danish firefighting site, two years of monitoring linked wetter soil to greater PFAS mobilization toward groundwater. Research with BGU’s Prof. Ofer Dahan. Full team and study below.

BGU researchers developed a cellulose aerogel that captures oil and supports oil-degrading bacteria. In laboratory tests, including simulated seawater, it brought oil capture and biodegradation together. Real-spill performance remains to be established. The research team is credited in the reply.