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Diagnostic Techniques and 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...
Wet Scans

Wet Scans

15.04.2004
Space & Physics, Lasers & Optics, Materials Science, Yeda Technology Transfer
The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has been a basic research tool for fifty years, and for those fifty years, scientists have been looking for...
An electric current can flow forever in superconductors because nothing in them wears it down

Electricity's Free Ride

01.11.2003
Materials Science, Biotechnology
An electric current can flow forever in superconductors because nothing in them wears it down    

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