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JRDF, a nonprofit global organization funding Type 1 diabetes research, has partnered with the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), the funding organization that provides governmental and public support for basic research in Israel, to launch a new initiative to invest in local research driving cures for Type 1 diabetes (T1D) in Israel.
VR system developed by former Israeli fighter pilots helps neurosurgeons rehearse difficult procedures and show the patient what will happen.
New technique from Israel uses cannabidiol to open a channel for drugs to target cancer cells only, potentially enabling a gentler course of chemo.
Corindus Vascular Robotics reported that it has completed its first machine-assisted brain surgery procedure in humans.
Scientists have made artificial nerve cells, paving the way for new ways to repair the human body. The tiny "brain chips" behave like the real thing and could one day be used to treat diseases such as Alzheimer's.
'Instead of having to check millions of molecules, we may check just 20, 100 or maybe up to 3,000 molecules,' says Jerusalem-based Pepticom.
Sphere Fluidics, a company commercializing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, and Peak Analysis and Automation (PAA), a leading supplier of intelligent laboratory automation solutions, today announced the optimization of the Cyto-Mine® Single Cell Analysis System through integration with PAA’s automated plate handler, S-LAB™. The addition of S-LAB to the Cyto-Mine provides researchers with a further streamlined solution for single cell analysis in biopharmaceutical workflows.
Food allergies are rising dramatically around the world. One startup thinks it may have the solution – a device that acts like a mini nose sniffing food for dangerous allergens.
“The mostly night-time atrial fibrillation was shown to be caused by a mutation in a gene (KCND2), encoding a crucial component of a potassium ion channel (Kv4.2) in the heart."
