FDA-approved artificial sweeteners and sport supplements were found to be toxic to digestive gut microbes, according to a new paper published in Molecules by researchers at BGU and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The collaborative study indicated relative toxicity of six artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose,…
Are viscous fluids always smooth in three dimensions? The Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem is one of the seven most complex mathematical problems yet to be proven. But Dr. Gal Davidi, an Israeli mathematician with a PhD in aerospace engineering,…
In the current strategy, all invited women are treated the same. But women are not all the same: each woman has her own individual risk of developing breast cancer, depending on many factors like genetic factors, lifestyle, or hormonal exposure.…
US Dublin-based med-tech company Medtronic plc (LSE: MDT) has acquired Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Nasdaq: MZOR) (TASE:MZOR) for $1.6 billion. This is the largest amount ever paid for an Israeli company in the medical sector, beating the $1.1 billion that Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma…
Calcalist and Connecting Leaders Club bring the Israeli innovation to Paris. Meet the Leading Israeli entrepreneurs, the best startups of the automotive industry at the INNOVATECH2018 conference & B2B Meetings. Cyber Security * Autonomous & Connected Cars * Smart Transportation
BGN Technologies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s technology transfer company, announced that BGU researchers are developing a new, single-dose fertility treatment based on a new telomerase-activating compound, which could improve both male and female fertility. The groundbreaking technology was developed by Prof.…
After three years of research, the physicist Julie Levy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) and his team invented a new chip technology. This type of device, called a terahertz microchip, allows our computers and all optical communication devices…
Every day, millions of people take probiotics – preparations containing live bacteria that are meant to fortify their immune systems, prevent disease, or repair the adverse effects of antibiotics. Yet the benefits of probiotics have not really been medically proven.…
Despite its apparent simplicity – a tube-like body topped with tentacles –, the sea anemone is actually a highly complex creature. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with the CNRS and Weizmann Institute of Sciences in Israel (Elad Chomsky, Aviezer Lifshitz,…
Human activity, rather than drought, is the main culprit for historically low water levels in the Sea of Galilee, a Ben-Gurion University research team says. In a comprehensive paper published in the September issue of Science of the Total Environment,…
