Three fascinating panel discussions took place during the DLD Innovation Festival in Tel Aviv. The first, hosted by DLD Chairman and serial entrepreneur, Dr. Yossi Vardi, was called “Is it high-tech or science fiction?” It featured artist Matty Mariansky, founder of “Rise of the Machines”, considered Israel’s largest culture and AI community; Oded Shoseyov, Professor …
In Israel, it is said that the country’s mood is measured by the level of Lake Tiberias. In 2019, after five years of drought, Israelis therefore watched with concern the body of water located 211 meters below sea level, not far from the northern border with Jordan. At the time, the “black line” – critical …
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Sesame seeds are healthy and tasty, but it’s a very labor-intensive crop, as pods must be picked by hand. As a result, sesame production has left Israel, moving entirely overseas. Now, Idan Sabag is working to bring it back. Together with Prof. Zvi Peleg, he is bringing sesame into modern agriculture, making it better suited …
Clearmind Medicine Inc. (NASDAQ: CMND) (CSE: CMND), (FSE: CWY) (“Clearmind” or the “company”), a biotech company focused on discovery and development of novel psychedelic-derived therapeutics to solve major under-treated health problems, today announced that Professor Joseph Tam, D.M.D., Ph.D., who led the pre-clinical trial for its drug candidate MEAI for treating obesity, presented the latest …
Researchers at the University of Kentucky and Hebrew University in Jerusalem are partnering to study the complexity of the human brain. Specifically, researchers will test whether new, so-far unknown proteins exist in the brain. Labs from the two institutions have obtained a joint grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United States-Israel Binational …
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COVID shots should become an annual norm if the coronavirus infection rate reaches a low level, according to a recommendation by the Health Ministry’s Vaccine Committee. The position is not yet policy, but the recommendations of the committee are implemented swiftly. Currently, adults are advised to take more frequent boosters, and this will remain the …
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Healthy soil is critical for sustaining life on earth. In fact, every single bite of food starts as a plant growing in the ground. Dr. Yair Mau studies how the basic act of watering crops affects soil salinity, while gaining insights into basic processes that affect soil quality. He also studies how plants cope with …
For the past decade the President’s Scholarships for Excellence in Science and Innovation have been awarded by the Office of the President of Israel to encourage quality academic research in diverse scientific fields, to raise public awareness of the goals and areas in which the scholarships are distributed, to stimulate research and scientific activity, and …
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While desalination has helped Israel meet and even exceed its clean water requirements in recent years, a new study in Nature NPJ Clean Water led by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers indicates that rising population levels are likely to place unprecedented stress on Israel’s water infrastructure, requiring dozens more desalination plants by 2065. Israel’s population …
The journal Nature recently published a study by a team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem and the San Francisco-based biotechnology company GRAIL. The team shared a novel epigenetic database and reported major advances in our understanding of how different cells in the human body control their unique …
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