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Yeda Technology Transfer
Benefiting Humanity
Biotechnology
Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs
Prof. Emeritus Esra Galun

Hybrid Potato Seeds

12.09.2010
Plants and Agriculture, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Emeritus Esra Galun developed a method for transferring intracellular organelles (mitochondria or chloroplasts) from a donor plant cell to a...
Prof. Mordhay Avron

Food Supplements

12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Mordhay Avron isolated and investigated the single-cell alga, Dunaliella, which is able to survive in extremely harsh surroundings, such as the...
Prof. Emeritus Moshe Feldman

Genetically Modified Wheat

12.09.2010
Plants and Agriculture, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Emeritus Moshe Feldman developed innovative chromosomal engineering techniques and used them to transfer desired genes from wild emmer wheat...
Prof. Jonathan Gressel

Battling Parasitic Weeds

12.09.2010
Plants and Agriculture, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Jonathan Gressel developed herbicide resistance methods for battling parasitic weeds such as witchweeds and broomrapes, which ravage grain and...
Prof. Hadassa Degani

3TP Method for Detection of Breast and Prostate Cancer

08.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Hadassa Degani studied the mechanisms that supply cancerous tumors with oxygen and nutrients. Using magnetic resonance imaging, she developed a...
Profs. Ruth Arnon

Profs. Ruth Arnon

08.09.2010
Benefiting Humanity
In the late 1960s, Institute scientists Profs. Ruth Arnon and Michael Sela and Dr. Dvora Teitelbaum synthesized several molecules known as copolymers...
Prof. Michel Revel

Beta interferon drug for Multiple Sclerosis

08.09.2010
Genetics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Michel Revel spent more than 30 years studying interferons, which play a key role in the immune system. In the late 1970s, he isolated the...
Hannah Esther Angel Kaman. Sucessful pregnancy

Life-Giving Research

11.08.2010
Cancer, Evolution and Development, Fertility, Benefiting Humanity
Once in a while, a finding can change lives almost immediately
Bone Marrow Transplant

Bone Marrow Transplant

18.07.2010
Benefiting Humanity
Using laboratory animals, Prof. Yair Reisner developed the concept of “megadose” bone marrow transplants. The approach, developed further in...
Prof. Daniel Zajfman, President, Weizmann Institute of Science

Introduction to Alternative Energy

01.07.2008
Environment, Energy, Climate, Technology & Applications, Benefiting Humanity
Climate change, global resource management, energy use, pollution control: There is an enormous need for an array of innovative technologies that go...

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