The European Research Council (ERC) has selected 328 first-class scientists to receive its prestigious Starting Grants, worth up to €2 million each. This first Starting Grant competition under the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, and the seventh to date, awards €485…
What is the Partech Shaker? Partech Shaker helps the most promising digital startups “cross the chasm”, from Seed to Series A. Partech Shaker helps leading international companies work on today’s hot topics with tomorrow’s leaders. Partech Shaker develops and promotes European…
Last November, the Minister of Economy, Naftali Bennett, launched “Water City” – the flagship Israeli project in China, and announced the selection of the city of Shouguang in the Shandong province to be the Israeli “Water City” in China. The…
Each cell contains thousands of proteins, each one of which bears a unique signature. All proteins, distinct in shape and function, are built from the same amino acid strings. Many proteins are vital, as evidenced by the plethora of diseases…
Groups at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Cambridge University have jointly managed the feat of turning back the clock on human cells to create primordial germ cells – the embryonic cells that give rise to sperm and ova –…
Israel pledged an additional $8.75 million USD on Wednesday to the UN’s Ebola Response Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) towards fighting the deadly disease, the country’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Dr. David Nabarro, Special UN Envoy for Ebola said…
Soft particles are known to overlap and form stable clusters that self-assemble into periodic crystalline phases with density-independent lattice constants. We use molecular dynamics simulations in two dimensions to demonstrate that, through a judicious design of an isotropic pair potential,…
ET Solar Energy Corp. (“ET Solar”), a leading smart energy solutions provider, announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary ET Solutions AG has been chosen to provide turnkey EPC service to a 40 MWp PV power plant in Israel along with local…
L’Oréal announces the acquisition of a start-up company that develops hair fibre optical reader technology for a long-term Research program. Through this acquisition, L’Oréal reinforces its historic leadership in hair research. Based in Tel Aviv, Coloright will continue to be managed by its…
