Cleveland Clinic and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem will begin a formal initiative to raise funds and develop a virtual global Center for Transformative Nanomedicine. This partnership will harness the power of nanoscience and nanotechnology with the goal of revolutionizing…
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will meet with his Scientific Advisory Board, together with UNESCO Director General and chair of the Board Irina Bokova, on 18 September 2016 during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Board will…
4P-Pharma has signed an exclusive license agreement with Aquitaine Science Transfert, for the development of a drug targeting pancreatic cancer, triple negative breast cancer or colon cancer. The molecule was first developed and patented by researchers from the laboratory of…
Bank Hapoalim CEO Arik Pinto and Peretz Lavie, president of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, signed an agreement on Tuesday to enhance their cooperation in the field of Data Science. The bank said that it viewed the partnership…
Hydrogen photo-production in green algae, catalyzed by the enzyme [FeFe]-hydrogenase (HydA), is considered a promising source of renewable clean energy. Yet, a significant increase in hydrogen production efficiency is necessary for industrial scale-up. We have previously shown that a major…
Rapid Medical, a company focused on the development of neurovascular interventional devices, announced that the Comaneci Adjustable Remodeling Mesh has exceeded 500 successfully treated aneurysms worldwide. This milestone comes only two years after Rapid Medical launched the device in Europe. The Comaneci is the first-ever…
IBM Alpha Zone accelerator offers a 20 week professional and deep immersion program for the purposes of developing solutions for the enterprise market. The program focuses on post Seed & Round A funded companies with the aim to create long…
An international team announced today that a planet with a mass similar to that of Earth has been observed orbiting the star Proxima Centauri – the closest star to our Sun, just over 4 light years (about 40 trillion km) away. The…
Scientists at Technion have proposed an innovative system for harvesting safe drinking water from air. Capturing atmospheric moisture is not a new invention in itself because atmospheric water generators for commercial and domestic use already exist. But the new device…
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have determined that a child pedestrian’s ability to safely cross the road is hindered more during a cell phone conversation than an adult’s. The study was published recently in Safety Science (Elsevier).…