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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    
Clockwise: Prof. Ehud Shapiro, Prof. Zvi Livneh, Dr. Tamar Paz-Elizur, Ph. D. student Yaakov Benenson and Dr. Rivka Adar. Guinness World Record

DNA Fuels Tiny Computing Machine

01.05.2003
Biochemistry, Math & Computer Science, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biotechnology
DNA is not only the "software" of the world's smallest computing device, it's also the fuel
Kenyan farmer in an experimental corn field

Uprooting Hunger in Africa

01.10.2002
Plants and Agriculture, Biotechnology
A parasite-fighting technique triples corn harvests on experimental plots
illustration: Trillion Computers in one drop

A Trillion Computers in One Drop

01.05.2002
Biochemistry, Genetics, Chemistry, Math & Computer Science, Encryption/Decryption, Biotechnology
Trillions of microscopic biological computers vigilantly patrolling your body in search of disease? Welcome to the brave new world of computer...
Dr. Michal Irani

A Visual Window into Space and Time

01.01.2002
Computer Vision, Mathematics, Technology & Applications
Whether spellbinding or tedious, a video film seems like a simple sequence of pictures. Yet it encompasses often-overlooked spatial and temporal...
Prof. Avraham Ben-Nun.

Like a Forest Fire

01.05.2001
Brain & Behavior, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Yeda Technology Transfer
Genetically engineered "draw-fire" proteins may lead to a new treatment for autoimmune diseases

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Dr. Omer Kneller (left) and Chen Mor direct a laser beam before it enters the experimental setup. The experiment required a powerful laser beam that could produce exceptionally short, attosecond light pulses. Photo: Noa Yaffe

Matter at the Crossroads

Staphylococcus bacteria

New Immune Mechanism Revealed in the Cellular Trash

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When Proteins Go on Strike

Mouse heart tissue viewed under a microscope

A Broken Heart: Two Types of Scars, Two Paths to Healing

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