MASHAV, Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, will send three mobile emergency clinics to areas in western Africa where there is a high risk of infection with Ebola. In response to requests by many governments, the Secretary-General of the United…
In nature, waves such as those in the ocean begin as local oscillations in the water that spread out, ripple fashion, from their point of origin. But fans of the television series Star Trek will recall a different sort of wave pattern:…
On October 28th 2014, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Israel-France is organizing the 5th Edition of its TRANSTECH Conference, an international seminar on Technology Transfer and Financial Technology development potential of cooperation between Israel, France and the European Union. Our goals are to allow the participants to better understand the Technology…
On October 28th 2014, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Israel-France is organizing the 5th Edition of its TRANSTECH Conference, an international seminar on Technology Transfer and Financial Technology development potential of cooperation between Israel, France and the European Union. Our goals are to allow the participants to better understand…
Thursday, September 18, 2014 9:30:00 AMTAU researcher shows movie audiences and schizophrenics share brain activity patternsIn one of the final scenes of the 2010 psychological thriller Black Swan, Nina, a ballerina played by Natalie Portman, finally loses her grip on reality,…
Artificial sweeteners, promoted as aids to weight loss and diabetes prevention, could actually hasten the development of glucose intolerance and metabolic disease; and they do it in a surprising way: by changing the composition and function of the gut microbiota…
The Cleantech Group and WWF have published the Global Cleantech Innovation Index for 2014, and Israel is in the number 1 position. According to the report, “Israel topped the 2014 index, with its relative outperformance on the measure of start-up companies per capita being a…
Laboratory mice are one of the most common animal models used in biological and medical research. Thousands of laboratory mouse strains are produced by artificial selection – the process by which humans breed animals over dozens of generations for particular traits.…
As the most severe Ebola epidemic on record spreads through central Africa, infecting and killing hundreds of citizens and foreign aid workers, and raising the specter of outbreaks all over the world, an Israeli research team is working with survivors…