The funding round, led by EMC and Sequoia capital, is the company’s second in a year. Five million will be used to buy out some of the founders’ shares. Yet another funding round was announced in what is turning out…
MOND is a theory concerning the Dark Matter problem. The problem is that our observations of certain systems are inconsistent with Newtonian dynamics. We measure less mass than Newton’s law predicts there should be. There are 2 ways of looking…
The decline of the euro hampers Israeli exports to France, which remains the 10th largest customers of Israel and its 12th supplier. According to figures provided by the Israeli customs and taken over by the Institute of Statistics, changes in…
A team of researchers from the Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Israel Antiquities Authority reported today in the new issue of Nature Magazine “one of the most important discoveries in the study of human evolution”.…
A collaborative study by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the National Institutes of Health in the USA and other institutions describes, for the first time, a novel molecular mechanism identified in human cells. The authors describe how proteins exploit the chloride…
Alpha1-antitrypsin (AAT) does a surprisingly good job killing bacteria, a research team at BGU, which has been studying the drug, has discovered. The recent study reported in the Journal of Infectious Diseases by the group headed by Dr. Eli C. Lewis “Acute Phase Protein α1-Antitrypsin Reduces Bacterial Burden…
Israeli Minister of Agriculture Yair Shamir, accompanied by the Head of MASHAV arrived in Myanmar for a first official ministerial visit in 35 years aimed at strengthening relations between the two countries in the field of agriculture. The delegation met…
Diebold, Incorporated has appointed Riki Aviv as vice president, Eastern Europe and Israel. She will be responsible for developing and operating the company’s business in these geographies and further implementing growth strategies. Aviv has more than 30 years of leadership…
This document presents the forecast of macroeconomic developments compiled by the Bank of Israel Research Department in December 2014. The forecast was presented to the Monetary Committee on December 28, 2014, during its meeting prior to the decision on the…
Nanoparticles, extremely tiny particles measured in billionths of a meter, are increasingly everywhere, and especially in biomedical products. Their toxicity has been researched in general terms, but now a team of Israeli scientists has for the first time found that…
