2023 ANNUAL REPORT | BAR-ILAN INSTITUTE

70 level will allow us to understand cellular and molecular mechanism underlying development, regeneration, and disease. Publications 2022 and 2023 • Dorit Omer, Osnat Cohen-Zontag, Yehudit Gnatek, Orit Harari-Steinberg, Oren Pleniceanu, Michael Namestnikov, Ayelet-Hashahar Cohen, Malka NissimRafinia, Gal Tam, Tomer Kalisky, Eran Meshorer, Benjamin Dekel. “OCT4 induces long-lived dedifferentiated kidney progenitors poised to redifferentiate in 3D kidney spheroids”. Molecular TherapyMethods & Clinical Development, 2023. • Yaron Trink, Achia Urbach, Benjamin Dekel, Peter Hohenstein, Jacob Goldberger, Tomer Kalisky. “Characterization of Continuous Transcriptional Heterogeneity in HighRisk Blastemal-Type Wilms’ Tumors Using Unsupervised Machine Learning”. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023. • Yishay Wineberg, Itamar Kanter, Nissim Ben-Haim, Naomi Pode-Shakked, Efrat Bucris, Tali Hana Bar-Lev, Sarit Oriel, Harel Reinus, Yishai Yehuda, Rotem Gershon, Rachel Shukrun, Dekel Dov BarLev, Achia Urbach, Benjamin Dekel, Tomer Kalisky. “Characterization of alternative mRNA splicing in cultured cell populations representing progressive stages of human fetal kidney development”. Scientific Reports, 2022. Prof. Kaminka Gal Department of Computer Science Member of BINA Nano-Biomedicine Center Nano-Robotics Center Research Areas • Teams of Robots • Agents and People • Data Mining and Learning • Multi-Agent Systems • Artificial intelligence (AI) Abstract Artificial intelligence and multi-robot systems Computational mechanisms that underly intelligent social behavior, artificial and natural. Such mechanisms include the ability to understand what others are doing and intend to do, and to generate appropriate cooperative, coordinated behavior. This research emphasizes both theory and experiments with robots to synthesize social intelligence in the lab, and in real-world applications including applications in molecular nano-scale robots. Prof. Klein Lior Department of Physics Member of BINA Nano-Electro Magnetism & Spintronics Center Research Areas • Magneto-transport in thin magnetic films (particularly ruthenates and manganites) • Anisotropic magnetoresistance and giant planar Hall effect • Current induced manipulation of domain walls • Macroscopic quantum tunneling • Transport properties of LAO/STO interfaces • Magnetic sensors and memory Abstract Flexible planar Hall effect sensors Flexible magnetic sensors have gained popularity due to their versatility and potential applications in major areas of flexible electronics, including soft robotics, consumer electronics, healthcare, automotive, and more. They are widely utilized for tasks such as navigation, strain and pressure sensing, posture and motion tracking. A key advantage of flexible sensors compared to rigid ones is their bendability, which enables their conforming to a wide variety of surfaces including those that are soft and irregularly shaped. However, this advantage has come with a cost, as flexible magnetic sensors have exhibited significantly inferior capability of detecting small magnetic fields, which limits their potential use. This may now change, as in our study we have reported a giant leap of more than an order of magnitude improvement in the sensitivity of flexible magneto-resistive sensors. The sensors, elliptical in shape and grown on a polyamide tape, can detect low-frequency magnetic fields smaller than 200 picoTesla, which is more than 200,000 times smaller than the earth’s magnetic field. These values are not only the best among all types of flexible magnetic sensors reported to date, but they also surpass those of many rigid counterparts. The unprecedented sensitivity, accompanied by simple design, low cost and remarkable flexibility, make these sensors particularly attractive for being integrated in the next generation of flexible electronic devices. The recent development is reported in a paper which appears as an Editor’s Pick in the journal Applied Physics Letters. A flexile planar Hall effect sensor.

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