Technion – Israel Institute of Technology > Archive > Accelerating Drug Discoveries, UAE & Technion at BizTEC Accelerating Drug Discoveries, UAE & Technion at BizTEC 17/11/2020 Innovative Technology to Accelerate Drug Discovery is Winning Development in BizTEC 2020 For the first time, the Minister of Science and Technology and…
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Technion – Israel Institute of Technology > Archive > Quickening the Quantum Revolution Quickening the Quantum Revolution 27/10/2020 Unique ‘Introduction to Practical Quantum Computing’ Summer School The first of its kind in Israel: Technion summer school program ‘Introduction to Practical Quantum Computing’ attracts over 570 registrations. Ph.D. student Tasneem…
Read moreSpin-optics on an Atomic Scale: Chips of the Future
Technion researchers develop a smart light source based on a single atomic layer of matter. The achievement provides a platform for the development of new quantum applications for computing and communication Prof. Erez Hasman Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have developed…
Read moreA race against time: preventing suicide
Researchers at Technion and the Hebrew University have developed an innovative technology for early detection of suicidal tendencies. Published in Scientific Reports, the technology is based on automatic text analysis of social network content Prof. Roi Reichart Suicide is a significant cause of death in…
Read moreTechnion Students Develop Lifesaving Stroke Detection Application
A team of students from the Technion and the University of Missouri won second place at MedHacks — a hackathon for developing medical technologies hosted by Johns Hopkins University. They were awarded for developing the Scan&Sound application, which detects strokes at early stages and alerts…
Read moreAn Oracle for the Digital Age: Technion Data Scientist Predicts the Future
Kira Radinsky ’08, Ph.D.’12, is a detective of sorts, but she’s not looking for light-fingered employees or cheating spouses. She’s seeking causalities and patterns that connect seemingly unrelated occurrences to spot the early warning signs of high-impact future events, including political riots and disease epidemics….
Read moreTechnion Creates Rapid Test for COVID-19 and Cancer
Technion scientists have developed a novel method for rapid and accurate sensing of coronavirus without the need to rely on PCR amplification, a technique that makes millions or even billions of copies of DNA so that there is enough material to test. The new technique…
Read moreNovel COVID-19 Breathalyzer Has Potential as Screening Tool
The intelligent nanotechnology is capable of rapidly detecting COVID-19 in exhaled breath and has “the potential to serve as a monitoring and epidemic control tool.” COVID-19 testing is a key step in gaining control over the spread of the pandemic. Current molecular COVID-19 tests entail…
Read morePredicting In-game Actions from NBA Player Interviews
Technion researchers have developed a new method for predicting basketball player performance. It is based on analyzing a player’s past performance and pre-game interviews. A computational method developed at the Technion significantly improves the prediction of the basketball players’ performance. The study was led by…
Read moreIndependent on the Ground
A mapping system developed at the Technion increases the independence of visually impaired pedestrians in urban spaces Technion Researchers have developed an innovative mapping system for blind pedestrians. The study was carried out by Achituv Cohen, a doctoral student in the Transportation and Geo-Information Engineering…
Read moreBreakthrough in Understanding of Brain Function
New research conducted by Prof. Itamar Kahn of the Technion’s Rappaport Faculty of Medicine in Israel and Prof. Nancy Ratner of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) demonstrates a potential new treatment for cognitive impairments that are associated with disruption in the brain fibers that…
Read moreHigh Scores for Coping with the Pandemic
The Technion’s First Virtual Board of Governors Meeting Showcases the University’s Prowess The State of the Technion is strong, despite, or perhaps because of, the hardships caused by the coronavirus pandemic. That was one of the key take-aways from the Technion Board of Governors Meeting…
Read morePride of Israel: Technion-trained Students Win Big in Chemistry Olympiad
Israel’s Chemistry Team that was trained at the Technion has been awarded a gold medal, two silver medals and a bronze medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad, which recently took place online due to COVID-19. Over the past week, 240 young girls and boys from…
Read moreCorona Virus-killing PPE Created by the Technion Goes into Mass Production
In late March, the Technion came out with one of the first personal protective equipment (PPE) developments for medical teams treating the coronavirus on the frontlines — the “Maya” sticker. Now, the adhesive decal, which boosts the efficiency of surgical masks by 100%, has gone…
Read moreScientists develop way to find tumors from blood tests 98% faster
Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a new method for rapid, inexpensive analysis of blood samples. Its first application to be tested will be early detection of cancerous tumors. The innovative technology, described in Nature Communications, was developed by Prof. Tomer Shlomi and…
Read moreTechnology Overpowering Disability
Watch Dr. Amit Goffer, a Technion alumnus and one of Israel’s most inspiring entrepreneurs. Goffer, experienced a tragic accident confining him to a wheelchair and has since been developing alternative modes of transport to the traditional wheelchair. Goffer shares the stroy’s behind the development of…
Read moreNew Technion-Teva Collaboration
Teva and the Technion Announce Collaboration to Promote Innovative R&D in the Fields of Cancer and Neurobiology. The collaboration is a significant link in a chain of collaborations Teva has initiated with leading academic institutions, including Tel Aviv University, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and more. …
Read moreIsraeli Nobel chemistry laureate dismisses likelihood of Beirut-like explosion in Haifa
Haifa Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Prof Dan Shechtman, said we don’t expect explosions in Haifa Prof Dan Shechtman, one of Israel’s most recent Nobel chemistry laureates, has denied recent speculation that one of the country’s main ports, Haifa, could witness an explosion similar to…
Read moreTapping into the power of photosynthesis for clean energy
In a big step forward toward making BIO-photoelectrochemical cells (BIOcells) a mainstream clean energy source in the future, researchers from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have overcome an efficiency hurdle by successfully combining the power of efficient light absorption…
Read moreTechnion Researchers present Breakthrough in Computing Technology
The study is a significant milestone towards the development of computer memory units with computational abilities, a solution to the call for faster processing and analytics needed for Big Data. Researchers at the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering have presented a breakthrough in in-memory computing:…
Read moreTechnion Students Conducted the First Test Flight of an Aircraft Printed Entirely on a 3D Printer
The unmanned vehicle was produced using advanced technologies to serve as a cost-effective experimental platform for design aspects pertaining to flexible aircraft and green aviation Students from the Technion Faculty of Aerospace Engineering conducted the successful maiden test flight of the A3TB (Active Aeroelastic Aircraft…
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