Science

Top Online Contact Lens Retailer Buys Israeli Mobile Vision Test Developer 6over6
Founded in 2014 by two doctors, 6over6 developed apps to enable vision tests for eyeglass or contact lens prescriptions.
December 19, 2019

Israel Science Foundation Launches New Drive For Type 1 Diabetes Research And Care
A joint partnership with a global organization will fund up to $6 million in Type 1 diabetes research in Israel over the next five years.
December 12, 2019

Israeli Voice Tech Startups Healthymize, Beyond Verbal Merge, Raise $9M
Both startups developed similar voice-analyzing tech for health monitoring and will now be called Vocalis Health.
December 12, 2019

Peregrine Ventures Raises $115M For 4th Fund Focused On MedTech Startups
Eyal Lifschitz, managing partner at Peregrine, says there is huge demand and opportunity in medical technologies in Israel and 'foreign investors recognize this.'
December 09, 2019

Hadassah Hospital 1st In Mideast To Use Unique Deep-Sequence Testing Of Tumor Tissue For Targeted Therapy
The test, called F1CDx, detects and identifies genetic changes in cancerous tumors such as substitutions, insertions, mutations, and alterations in 324 genes within a tissue sample.
December 09, 2019

Dubbed ‘Anti-Theranos,’ An Israeli Startup Is Delivering On Blood Test Device With Results In Minutes
Founded in 2011, Sight Diagnostics developed a device that performs blood tests and provides lab-grade results in minutes using just a few drops of blood.
December 08, 2019

First-Of-Its-Kind Lab To Improve Personalized Cancer Therapy Opens In Israel
OncoHost, an Israeli company using response profiling to improve personalized cancer therapy, announced last week it has opened a new state-of-the-art high throughput proteomics laboratory for analysis of host response to cancer treatment. Proteomics, or proteomic analysis, refers to the systematic identification and quantification of the complete complement of proteins (the proteome) of a biological […]
December 08, 2019

After ‘Rough’ Year, Cannabis Sector Looks To Separate The Serious Players From The Opportunists In 2020
Israel is wrapping up a 'really tough year,' but any developing market with multi-billion-dollar potential is bound to suffer some growing pains, says Yona Cymerman of Can Innovations.
December 05, 2019

Positive Results For Alpha Tau Medical’s Breakthrough Radiation Cancer Treatment
Israeli medtech company Alpha Tau Medical announced positive results of a clinical trial involving its breakthrough alpha radiation cancer treatment method Alpha DaRT (Dіffusіng Alpha-emіtters Radіatіon Therapy.) The first clinical trial of the novel treatment, which was published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, the official journal of the American Society […]
December 05, 2019

Blood Diagnostics Firm Sight Gets FDA Nod For Device That Delivers Results In Minutes
The company says it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its OLO analyzer, a device that performs blood tests and provides lab-grade results in minutes.
December 05, 2019

Israeli AI Medical Imaging Startup DiA Partners With IBM Watson Health
Israeli AI medical imaging startup DiA Imaging Analysis will partner with IBM Watson Health, a provider of innovative, AI, enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions used by medical professionals worldwide, the company announced this week. IBM’s new Imaging AI Marketplace will offer DiA’s FDA-approved, AI-powered cardiac ultrasound software, designed to assist clinicians to analyze cardiac ultrasound […]
December 04, 2019

Israeli Study Finds Molecule Triggers Self-Destruction Of Pancreatic Cancer Cells
The administration of PJ34 reduced the number of cancer cells in developed tumors in mice by up to 90 percent in 30 days, Israeli scientists say.
December 03, 2019

A Virtual Hospital, A Nav App For The Blind, An AR Microscope: Israel Showcases Digital Health Tech
Over a thousand participants gathered in Tel Aviv for the second annual Digital.Health.Now conference focused on advanced Israeli innovations in telemedicine, digital healthcare, and general wellness aided by technology.
November 28, 2019

British Pharma Firm AstraZeneca, JVP Cooperate On Digital Health Investment In Israel
Jerusalem Venture Partners and British multinational pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca have signed a cooperation agreement to identify, develop and invest in digital health in Israel, the Jerusalem-based venture capital firm announced Tuesday. A ceremony was held at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Jaffa to launch BeyondBio, a unique investment program which is AstraZeneca’s […]
November 28, 2019

Zebra Medical Vision Secures FDA Nod For Device That Identifies Water In The Lungs
The Israeli-founded AI medical imaging company has received its fourth FDA nod for the HealthCXR device that detects the accumulation of fluid within the pleura
November 27, 2019