Monthly Archives: July 2012

“It’s not a product – it’s an industry”

Posted on July 22, 2012

Israeli biotech Medgenics’ CEO said its Biopump technology has the potential to “start a whole new pharmaceutical industry”. Medgenics’ technology manipulates patients’ own tissue to produce proteins to fight diseases, eliminating the need for hundreds of vaccines. http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/31070/medgenics-demonstrates-biopump-technology-potential-as-it-enters-inflection-point-31070.html

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For landing on the Moon

Posted on July 22, 2012

Dozens of volunteers are working to turn Israel into the fifth country in the world, to have landed spacecraft on the moon. The team presented a model of the tiny space vehicle at a meeting of the Knesset Science and … Continue reading →

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Military device to save lives

Posted on July 22, 2012

Tel Aviv-based Netline Communications Technologies has made one of the smallest jammers ever for stopping improvised explosive devices (IEDs). It was made after a NATO country sought a “handball sized” jammer that elite units like Special Forces could carry in … Continue reading →

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We can rebuild it

Posted on July 22, 2012

In 2005, an Israeli F16 plane crashed on landing. The front was completely shattered, its tail was broken, the wings were curved, and the engine was filled with mud. Seven years later, the plane has been repaired and the original … Continue reading →

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Star of tomorrow

Posted on July 22, 2012

The magazine Scientific American has featured 28-year-old Israeli physicist Eldad Kepten in its “30 under 30” list of future possible Nobel Laureates. Kepten’s speciality is the stochastic dynamics of chromatin (DNA) in the cellular nucleus with advanced microscopy and single … Continue reading →

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New York to import Israeli tech culture

Posted on July 22, 2012

Good video clip summarising Israel Technion’s involvement in the building of New York’s Technion Cornell Innovation Institute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-va_ncrYWes&feature=youtu.be

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Yeshiva University scientists at Bar-Ilan

Posted on July 22, 2012

30 male and female undergraduate YU science majors will spend seven weeks of the summer carrying out their research in Bar-Ilan University’s state-of-the-art laboratories in Tel Aviv. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/156832

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An exhibition for inventors

Posted on July 22, 2012

Tel Aviv is hosting the first of its kind Israeli Patents Exhibition in September. It intends to put 10,000 Israeli and foreign inventors, investors, patent attorneys, mechanical engineers and computer programmers in the same room and turn good ideas into … Continue reading →

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Clearing runways can save life

Posted on July 22, 2012

FODetect from Israel’s Xsight uses hybrid radar and electro optical technology to detect junk on runways. The system can prevent incidents such as when an Air France Concorde hit Foreign Object Debris (FOD) from a previous flight, caught fire and … Continue reading →

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It’s hot – but so what?

Posted on July 15, 2012

Kibbutz Tirat Tzvi is the 9th hottest place on the planet, according to Washington Post’s Foreign Policy magazine. But that has not stopped it from also being Israel’s largest producer of dates. Kibbutzniks have cultivated 18,000 palm trees in temperatures … Continue reading →

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