Technology & Applications

Triple Treatment Keeps Cancer from Coming Back

Triple Treatment Keeps Cancer from Coming Back

07.06.2005

Cancer, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

How do the cancer cells manage to circumvent the blockade put up by an anti-EGFR antibody? A new study discovere what happens to cancer cells...

Slow Release

Slow Release

01.05.2005

Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Organic Chemistry, Yeda Technology Transfer

"Chains" that fall away slowly could lead to new time-release drugs

Questions Ban on Human Cloning Research

Questions Ban on Human Cloning Research

01.11.2004

Genetics, Benefiting Humanity

by Prof. Michel Revel

Wet Scans

Wet Scans

01.10.2004

Space & Physics, Lasers & Optics, Technology & Applications, Yeda Technology Transfer

Encapsulating delicate biological samples in a special polymer enables them to be seen under an electron microscope in their natural state

Top (l-r): Leonid Karlinsky, Dr. Michel Vidal-Naquet, Ita Lifschitz, Boris Epshtein. Bottom (l-r): Prof. Shimon Ullman, Eli Okon, Evgeniy Bart, Dan Levy, Eran Borenstein. On all fours: the everfaithful LeilahProf. Ullman's

Man's Search for Meaning

31.08.2004

Brain & Behavior, Robotics and Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Technology & Applications

How does the brain piece together the signals reaching it from the eye to make sense of our world?

Ethics and Genetics

Ethics and Genetics

01.07.2004

Biochemistry, Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Fertility, Genetics, Technology & Applications, Benefiting Humanity

Are Human Rights and Human Traditions Threatened by Scientific Progress?

(l-r) Dr. Alexander Vaskevich, Prof. Israel Rubinstein and Ph.D. student Tali Sehayek. Tube tales

Tubes with a Twist

01.05.2004

Nanoscience, Materials Science, Yeda Technology Transfer

Move over carbon. These new nanotubes are made of gold, silver and other metals

Prof. Uzy Smilansky. Piecing the puzzle

Archaeology Goes Hi-Tech

01.05.2004

Math & Computer Science, Scientific Archaeology, Technology & Applications

Institute physicists are digging up ancient secrets

Introduction

Introduction

01.05.2004

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Organic Chemistry, Benefiting Humanity

Recent data show that roughly 220 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes. In 2005, an estimated 1.1 million people died from diabetes and the...

Salty Scans

Salty Scans

15.04.2004

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

Kidney disease may affect as many as one in twelve people, and causes millions of deaths each year. Currently, the diagnosis of kidney function...

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