Lab-Grown Muscle Sucks Up Sugar to Fight Diabetes
Technion engineers lab-grown muscle tissue that absorbs excess sugar, reducing blood glucose in diabetic mice and opening doors to new diabetes treatments.
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Israeli nanotech may be able to reduce side-effects of chemotherapy
Precision dosing invention gets drugs just to affected cells and not whole body; already tested on mice with inhibitor drugs; inventors also aiming at chemo and other treatments. By NATHAN JEFFAY (Nathan Jeffay is The Times of Israel’s health and science correspondent) Scientists say that new Israeli
Is there a connection between Nobel Prize winners and the Technion?
Two of the three Nobel Prize in Physics laureates for 2022 received honorary doctoral degrees from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Published: OCTOBER 8, 2022 on Jpost. Two of the three Nobel Prize in Physics laureates for 2022 received honorary doctoral degrees from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in
Lung fluid may provide basis for cancer-treating vaccines
Scientists say specific proteins found in lung fluid could theoretically be used to develop new methods for diagnosing and possibly treating cancer By NATHAN JEFFAY Fluid from the lungs could be used to develop new methods for diagnosing and possibly treating cancer, according to a new
Hebrew University and Technion Partner with IBM to Advance Artificial Intelligence
Following collaborations with MIT, Stanford, and other leading universities around the globe, IBM Research to invest millions in research at these two leading Israeli universities The Technion and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have signed a partnership agreement with IBM Research to advance artificial intelligence
Technion Unveils Its First Autonomous Electric Formula Car
The Formula Student competition in Europe this summer is a platform for new technological developments. The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Formula racecar team unveiled the first-ever autonomous electric vehicle in the team’s history since 2012. They designed and built it for the Formula Student International Design
Technion Ranked 83 in the world according to the Shanghai Ranking
Technion improved by 11 places compared to last year’s ranking Haifa, Israel – August 15, 2022 –The Technion was ranked in 83rd place on the list of the world’s top 100 universities according to the Shanghai Ranking, the foremost index in the world for ranking
Technion Team Develops Rechargeable Silicon Battery
With an eye toward sustainable solutions to the global energy challenge, a Technion research team has created a proof-of-concept for a rechargeable silicon (Si) battery. Rechargeable batteries are particularly necessary for the electric vehicle (EV) industry, which currently relies on Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). LIBs, however,
Groundbreaking AI Research
Technion Researchers Harness the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Tackle the World’s Most Pressing Challenges Technion researchers are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle the world’s most-pressing challenges. Their extensive work in the field has positioned the Technion among the world’s leaders
AI Predicts Heart Conditions
Machine learning in cardiology: Technion scientists use artificial intelligence for atrial fibrillation risk prediction What if a computer told you that you were going to develop a heart condition in five years? You would have time to change your lifestyle, and perhaps mitigate or avoid
Tiny Lasers Acting Together as One
International research team uses topological platform to demonstrate coherent array of vertical lasers. Israeli and German researchers have developed a way to force an array of vertical cavity lasers to act together as a single laser – a highly effective laser network the size of
3D-Printing Blood Vessel Networks
For the first time, Technion scientists succeeded in forming a network of big and small blood vessels, necessary for supplying blood to implanted tissue Researchers led by Technion Professor Shulamit Levenberg, who specializes in tissue engineering, have succeeded in creating a hierarchical blood vessel network,