Search Results for: technion

With the adverse impact of climate change becoming clearer almost every day, the role of technology in mitigating these devastating effects has never been more important.  Israeli innovation – from clean energy to agriculture technology – has made massive contributions to the world’s efforts to  deal with this phenomenon, and NoCamels takes a look at […]

Tel Aviv University (TAU) has been ranked seventh worldwide and first outside the US in the 2024 Pitchbook Ranking for global entrepreneurship.  The annual ranking, published by renowned business data research company Pitchbook, tracks startups raising capital in the US, using the number of entrepreneurs among an institution’s alumni to compile the top 50 universities. […]

New materials developed by researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology are expected to significantly improve the performance of MRI scans, helping with early diagnosis for a range of diseases and reducing the need for some radiation-intensive tests.  An MRI – or magnetic resonance imaging – is a noninvasive procedure used by clinicians […]

A promising new strategy to treat a common form of lung cancer focuses on a protein whose loss makes it harder for the body to repair damaged DNA, which potentially paves the way for accelerated cell division that can lead to the growth of tumors.  Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. […]

Israeli startup H2OLL has launched its first complete system to produce high-quality and affordable water from the air.  The system was installed at the Wadi Attir initiative in the Negev, a groundbreaking project led by Israel’s Bedouin community to create a model of sustainable farming.  H2OLL’s technology started as a project by Eran Friedler and […]

Humans have been transporting themselves and their possessions across water for millennia, and there are even signs that our now extinct hominin ancestors were building boats more than half a million years ago.  And while some boat styles fall out of favor, never to be heard of again, one Israeli startup is giving an old […]

 The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology has entered into a collaboration with global computational intelligence firm Altair.  The new partnership will grant the Haifa-based university’s faculty, researchers, and students training and unlimited access to Altair’s data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) platform, RapidMiner.  Headquartered in Michigan, Altair has an Israel office is at the […]

For many people around the world, a doctor’s visit can be exceptionally fraught due to a language barrier in a scenario where accuracy and the ability to understand and be understood are of utmost importance.  But four former and current students of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have developed a new […]

A new study by Sheba Medical Center, Israel’s largest and internationally ranked hospital, found that remote hospital care at home, supervised by a physician, yields better outcomes for acutely ill patients than an actual stay in hospital.    The first-of-its-kind, peer-reviewed study was carried out at Beyond, Sheba’s virtual hospital. It was led by Prof. Gad […]

A new Israeli study has determined that processed food is not bad for us – despite its long-standing poor reputation – and with the right addition of proteins can actually give our bodies a boost.  Processed food is actually a blanket description for any foods that have been changed in some way during their preparation. […]

Israeli femtech company EndoCure is on a mission to change the way that we diagnose and treat endometriosis, a chronic disease affecting women that causes severe pain and affects fertility, and which is responsible for a range of other debilitating issues.    Endometriosis is a chronic condition in which tissue similar to the lining of the […]

There’s a common situation that occurs during a doctor’s visit. The patient comes in with an ailment, perhaps it’s a cough, a congested chest or ear ache.  The doctor raises possibilities of what could be causing the sickness – pneumonia, strep throat, an ear infection and so on. Chests are listened to, ears are examined, […]

Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of technology in Haifa have shown that boosting a person’s mental state could help them recover from a heart attack.  The researchers focused on the reward system – a network in the brain that is activated when a person is motivated or in a positive emotional state – […]

Eight Israel-based researchers are among 100 new members worldwide in the prestigious European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) for leading members of the life sciences community.   The organization says the new members and another 20 new associate members are being recognized for accomplishments across the spectrum of life science research, including work on infectious diseases, ocean […]

Israel Aerospace Industries, the country’s state-owned and largest defense firm, has embarked on a series of research partnerships with foreign universities for what the company’s head of R&D says are strictly non-military endeavors.  Just four months after announcing a partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi to collaborate on applied research, IAI has announced […]