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Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Jan. 5 2011. Photo by Doron Horowitz/Flash90.

Israeli academia climbs in international rankings

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Three Israeli universities appear in the 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities' top 100 list that the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy published on Tuesday. The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot climbed to No. 67 from last...

Innovative breast-cancer treatment uses anesthesia of nervous system around tumor

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Researchers at the Technion‒Israel Institute of Technology have developed an innovative treatment for breast cancer based on analgesic nanoparticles that target the nervous system. The study, published in Science Advances, was led by Professor Avi...
Disposable utensils. Credit: Pixabay.

Israel’s Technion to scrap throwaway cutlery for more sustainable alternatives

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In less than three months, on Oct. 1, the Technion‒Israel Institute of Technology will stop buying disposable utensils. The decision by Technion executive vice president and director general Professor Boaz Golany came after a lengthy...
An overview of the Technion–Israeli Institute of Technology campus in the Carmel Mountains. Credit: embassies.gov.il.

Technion ranked No. 1 in Europe in field of artificial intelligence

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CSRankings, the leading metrics-based ranking of top computer-science institutions around the world, has ranked the Technion–Israeli Institute of Technology No. 1 in the field of artificial intelligence in Europe (and, of course, in Israel), and 15th worldwide. In...
NASA sign at Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center. Credit: L. Galbraith/Shutterstock.

NASA names two asteroids after Israeli student who discovered them

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NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is naming two recently discovered asteroids after an Israeli student who found them during an asteroid-hunting project, it was announced on Friday. Aseel Nama, a biomedical engineering student at the...
A bioprinted ribeye steak. Credit: Credit: Aleph Farms/Technion‒Israel Institue of Technology.

It’s 3D, it’s a printer … it’s a steak! Aleph Farms, Technion join forces...

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With its research partner at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion‒Israel Institute of Technology, Aleph Farms has cultivated the world’s first slaughter-free ribeye steak, using 3D-bioprinting technology and natural building blocks of meat: real cow...
A medical worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine injection at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, Feb. 4, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Study: Even one dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine lowers viral load and spread

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Those infected with the COVID-19 virus after receiving even a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine present a much lower transmission risk than non-vaccinated individuals, according to new Israeli research. This is because the vaccine...
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. Source: Twitter.

Technion to award Pfizer CEO honorary doctorate for coronavirus vaccine

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The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will award an honorary doctorate to Pfizer CEO and chairman Dr. Albert Bourla for his “extraordinary achievement” in leading the record-time development of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, Technion president...
A researcher at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa on Feb. 19, 2019. Photo: Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Breakthrough in research could influence treatment of leukemia spreading to brain

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An international research group from Israel and Scotland has reported in Nature Cancer a breakthrough that may influence the treatment of metastatic leukemia spreading to the brain. The researchers include hematological-oncological experts from Schneider Children’s Medical...
Graduate student Jacob Kher-Alden, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Credit: Courtesy.

Record-breaking, new optical resonator out of Israel

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Physical Review X recently reported on a new optical resonator from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology that is unprecedented in resonance enhancement. Developed by graduate student Jacob Kher-Alden under the supervision of Professor Tal Carmon, the...