Science, Medicine, & Education

WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday passed a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of gestation, a top priority of the anti-abortion movement, but the measure is widely expected to die in the Senate. What Republicans call the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act would prohibit anyone from performing an abortion if the fetus is

  By Ron Liebowitz WALTHAM, Massachusetts — I am delighted to share the news that Brandeis professors Michael Rosbash and Jeffrey Hall today (Tuesday, Oct. 3)  were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work on circadian rhythms. The Nobel Committee recognized Michael, the Peter Gruber Professor of Neuroscience, and

Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University, whose parents fled Nazi Germany, and whose father was a cantor, was one of three American scientists to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine. The prize awarded to Rosbash, 74, and the others announced Monday was for their discoveries about molecular mechanisms controlling the body’s daily rhythm. Jeffrey Hall of

Several swastikas were found drawn on message boards outside two dormitory rooms in the same residence hall at Brandeis University. Public safety officers removed the images, officials at the Jewish-founded nonsectarian university said this week in a letter addressed to “Members of the Brandeis community.” Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and

MIAMI — Voicemails left on Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s cellphone by employees of the Hollywood, Fla., nursing home where 11 died in the post-Hurricane Irma heat have been deleted, according to the governor’s office. Scott gave out his number to nursing homes and assisted living facilities ahead of the hurricane so administrators could report concerns,

The FBI has been called in to investigate threats against minority students at California State University, Long Beach, including Latino and Jewish students. Campus President Jane Close Conoley on Wednesday in an email sent to students and university employees confirmed the threats and the investigation. The threats were made over the internet and by flyers