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Detecting disease in “healthy” people

Posted on January 29, 2017

Recent video by Israeli-Arab Professor Hossam Haick of Israel’s Technion who invented the Na-Nose breath test to detect diseases such as cancer. https://www.youtube.com/embed/1dhOaArOYdM?rel=0

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It’s ability, not ethnicity

Posted on March 27, 2016

Israel Technion’s Professor Hossam Haick, whose breakthrough work in nanotechnology has garnered global accolades, says his success as an Arab citizen of Israel proves that education knows no boundaries and is key to improving his community’s lot.  Prof Haick was … Continue reading →

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Smartphone – heal thyself

Posted on December 27, 2015

A team of Israel Technion researchers including Professor Hossam Haick (famous for the cancer breath test) has developed a synthetic polymer that mimics human skin and can be integrated into flexible devices so that future smartphones will be able to … Continue reading →

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TB skin patch wins Gates award

Posted on June 28, 2015

Israel Technion’s Professor Hossam Haick has won a Gates Foundation award to help development of a sensing plaster that can detect tuberculosis biomarkers on the skin. Professor Haick is already famous for his nanotech breath analyzer that detects cancer. http://focus.technion.ac.il/news_story.asp?id=361

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Cancer detection proven

Posted on April 19, 2015

In a study of 484 people (99 with stomach cancer), Israel’s NaNose breath detector gave an 80% accurate diagnosis – matching far more expensive, slower and invasive alternatives. NaNose (developed by Technion’s Dr Hossam Haick) also detected pre-cancerous growths that … Continue reading →

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Detecting cancer with the SniffPhone

Posted on February 8, 2015

The NaNose cancer breathalyzer technology developed by Professor Hossam Haick of Israel’s Technion will soon be installed in a mobile phone – to be called, appropriately, the SniffPhone. Using a tiny smell-sensitive sensor, the phone will be able to detect … Continue reading →

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NaNose cancer detector is ready to market

Posted on June 29, 2014

In international trials, the lung cancer detector developed by Technion’s Dr. Hossam Haick correctly diagnosed early-stage malignant tumors 90% of the time – far better than previous methods. The device has been licensed to Boston’s Alpha Szenszor, for development to … Continue reading →

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Technion course for Arabs

Posted on March 2, 2014

Unusually positive article by Tom Friedman about the on-line nano-technology course run by Israel Technion’s Israeli-Arab Professor Hossam Haick. Some ask him, “Are you a real person? Are you really an Arab, or are you an Israeli Jew speaking Arabic, … Continue reading →

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Arabs rush for Technion course

Posted on December 15, 2013

Thousands of Arab students, including 600 Egyptians, have applied for Israel Technion’s online course in nanotechnology and micro sensors. Technion Professor Hossam Haick, who invented Israel’s NaNose cancer detection device, offers the course beginning in March in Arabic and English. … Continue reading →

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UK Guardian hails Israeli cancer test

Posted on March 10, 2013

Unique recognition of Israel’s medical success in the UK newspaper that normally only criticizes Israel. It picked up a British Journal of Cancer article on the innovative diagnosis breath test invented by Israel Technion Professor Hossam Haick. Also featured on … Continue reading →

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