MUV Interactive’s trailblazing Bird wearable will turn every surface into a touchable interactive screen through motion, touch and voice. Four years ago, investors rejected Rami Parham’s concept of a wearable device for interacting with one’s digital environment based on finger…
Samsung is founding a startup accelerator in its development center in the Yakum industrial park. Yossi Smoler, head of the Open Innovation Group at Samsung Electronics Israel R&D center in Yakum, and former director of the incubators program in the…
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and Microchips Biotech, Inc. announced that they have entered into a partnership under which the companies will explore innovative ways to apply Microchips Biotech’s implantable drug delivery device to Teva’s portfolio of products with the goal of…
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Researcher Dr. Claude Brodski and colleagues from the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry and Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich in Germany have recently shown the embryonic origins of mood fluctuations and its implications for bipolar disorder in…
“Science leads you in directions you hadn’t thought of, and you have to navigate your way through it.” Assistant Professor Reut Shalgi returned from MIT to Israel thanks to the Technion, where she currently investigates regulatory mechanisms of protein synthesis…
Doctors and scientists want drug regulators and research funding agencies to consider medicines that delay ageing-related disease as legitimate drugs. Such treatments have a physiological basis, researchers say, and could extend a person’s healthy years by slowing down the processes…
A vertical green field, multimedia installations and the stories of industrious people, cutting-edge technologies and thriving companies that made the desert blossom. At Expo Milano 2015 Israel will present the Fields of Tomorrow. From the creation of the “Super Wheat”,…
Clinical trials of a new drug cocktail have been shown to cure 58 percent of terminally-ill patients by shrinking cancerous tumors or eliminating them altogether. The scientific community is hailing this discovery as a major breakthrough in cancer research. The new…
Cancer and big data: Symposium WIN 2015, full program Israeli delegation at WIN Symposium 2015
Chief Scientist at the Israeli Ministry of Economy Avi Hasson signed a cooperation agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recently. The agreement will open new business opportunities for Israeli companies in Latin America. The Inter-American Development Bank is the…
