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…
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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,…
A natural protein in the body can be tailored to function as a multi-targeting drug to treat osteoporosis, a disease in which the bones become brittle and fragile, Ben-Gurion University (BGU) researchers have showed. In a study, Dr. Niv Papo…
In the fall of 1973 Dr. Stephen W. Hawking, who has spent his entire professional career at the University of Cambridge, found himself ensnared in a horrendous and embarrassing calculation. Attempting to investigate the microscopic properties of black holes, the…
With the Israeli government investing NIS 10 million in the effort to fight the spread of the serious skin disease known as the “Rose of Jericho” or cutaneous leishmaniasis, Prof. Shula Michaeli (along with associates Dr. Yaniv Lustig and Dr.…
