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2021 EuroTech: Fighting Covid-19 with Science & Technology – 4th March 2021, 14:00 – 16:00 CET
28.2.2021Background EuroTech is a strategic alliance between 6 European Universities of Science and Technology. As part of our general mission, EuroTech has formed a Covid-19 task force to utilize research and technology in the fight against the pandemic. The a...
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Evolutionary Secrets of the Microbiome
18.2.2021Technion researchers have discovered how a gut microbiota deals with changes in habitat through reversible genetic inversion How does our gut respond and adapt to changing conditions? Where does this fundamental and critical flexibility come from? Tech...
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Time to Care
11.2.2021The COVID-19 pandemic may have created many obstacles, but it also provided opportunities for finding creative ways to overcome them. On January 14th, joint teams of students from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and Cornell Tech too...
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New Pathway to Attack Cancer Cells
6.2.2021When treating cancer, researchers are always searching for ways to remove cancer cells while minimizing damage to the rest of the body. One possible approach is to find processes unique to ca...
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Stem Cell AI
1.2.2021Revolutionary Neu-ChiP project will see scientists use human brain stem cells on microchips to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence (AI) Scientists have started work on a project that will see human brain stem cells used to power artificial i...
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Smart Farming
30.1.2021Technion researchers have developed an innovative technology for the automated monitoring of stress in agricultural crops. Early detection of water and heat stress is crucial for agricultural growers since the reduction in moisture is reflected in limi...
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To Touch and to Smell – a Nature Experience that Creates Happiness
29.1.2021A study by three Technion researchers has revealed that simply spending time in nature isn’t enough: to be happy, we need to get really close to it, to touch it and smell it. And surprise: there’s no need to turn off your phone During the first COVID-1...
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Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
27.1.2021Three young scientists from leading research institutions in Israel will each be awarded US$ 100,000 for their groundbreaking scientific research The Blavatnik Family Foundation, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Israel Academy of Sciences and ...
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Sensing the virus one molecule at a time
20.1.2021The European Union has awarded another grant to the research group of Professor Amit Meller of the Technion Faculty of Biomedical Engineering for their OpiPore project. The aim of OpiPore is to advance novel technology for analyzing single molecules, i...
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A Molecular Language
20.1.2021Technion scientists are deciphering a mechanism that integrates all the stages of the mRNA lifecycle into a unified system Researchers from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion have uncovered a mechanism that coordinates the multi-stage pr...
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Creating an Open and Safe Campus
19.1.2021First in Israel: a COVID-19 test developed at Technion offers rapid testing on campus to prevent chains of infection In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, a rapid and extensive testing operation developed at Technion benefits all residents of Techn...
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Pfizer CEO to Receive Technion Honarary Doctorate
15.1.2021The President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Professor Uri Sivan announced today that the Technion will award an honorary doctorate to Pfizer CEO and Chairman Dr. Albert Bourla, for his extraordinary achievement in leading the record...
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Toadlet peptide transforms into a deadly weapon against bacteria
14.1.2021Researchers at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hamburg, Germany, in collaboration with scientists in Israel and Spain, have discovered remarkable molecular properties of an antimicrobial...
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Two Technion Faculty Members Win ERC Consolidator Grants
14.1.2021Two Technion – Israel Institute of Technology faculty members have won ERC Consolidator Grants, prestigious awards allocated by the European Union (EU) as part of the Horizon 2020 research and development program. This year, the ERC (European Res...
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Schrödinger Medal to Dist. Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig
12.1.2021The Schrödinger Medal Will be Awarded to Technion Distinguished Professor Yitzhak Apeloig: The former Technion president will receive the medal for his seminal computational and experimental contributions to silicon chemistry and organic chemistry. Di...
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SARS-CoV-2 and the race for a vaccine
30.12.2020“Scientists around the world in general and in the Technion, in particular, are working around the clock with events like this. Our speaker tonight is a promising principal investigator and assistant professor of immunology at the Technion which ...
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Is it Safe to Eat?
28.12.2020Early warning systems for food contamination are taking a leap into a safer and healthier future with lab-on-a-chip monitoring technologies for the food industry being developed by Technion researchers within an EIT-Food Consortium. Food safety is cruc...
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TechWomen 2020
28.12.20201,300 outstanding female high school students in science and mathematics attended the virtual event which showcased an array of opportunities flowing from academic studies in science and engineering at Technion. “I used to watch “X-Men”, and it amazed ...
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Automated Analysis of Electrocardiology
24.12.2020Technion researchers, together with colleagues in Russia, have developed a technology for the accurate diagnosis of cardiac disorders based on automated analysis of routine electrocardiography Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers have de...
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The Juice Keepers
23.12.2020Technion students have harnessed viruses found in the environment of fruit trees to prevent spoilage of fruit juices – a phenomenon that causes tens of millions of dollars’ worth of damage each year. The development earned the students from the Technio...
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Technion and Tokushima University in Japan sign an agreement for academic cooperation
22.12.2020The new agreement will encourage research collaboration among top Japanese and Israeli researchers by expanding scholarly ties, facilitating academic cooperation, incr...
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Protein Quality Control and Ageing
14.12.2020A team of Technion researchers has presented new findings relating to the gradual deterioration of the body’s protein quality control system during aging. The study, which was published in PNAS – a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal pub...
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Food for Thought, and Thoughts on the Food of the Future
10.12.2020The European Federation of Food Science and Technology, EFFoST, has wrapped up its 34th annual conference on the theme “Bridging High-tech, Food-tech and Health: Consumer-oriented Innovations.” The conference, held online for the first time, took plac...
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ACT (Anti COVID-19 Technology) Wins Gold at IGEM
3.12.2020A Technion student team recently won a gold medal in the iGEM international synthetic biology competition for work developing an active gel to capture SARS-CoV-2 viral particles, preventing the infection of host cells. Unlike existing sanitization prod...
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Technion Harvey Prize: Honoring Pioneers in Chemical Engineering and Medical Sciences
3.12.2020The Harvey Prize, the Technion’s most prestigious award, will this year be awarded to Distinguished Professor Joseph DeSimone of Stanford University in the Science and Technology category and to Professor Raphael Mechoulam of the Hebrew University of J...
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IEEE Medal of Honor to Technion Living Legend Dist. Prof. Ziv
30.11.2020Prof. Ziv is the first Israeli to win the Medal of Honor – the most prestigious award given by the IEEE and one of the most prestigious in the world of technology The IEEE Medal of Honor, which is one of the most prestigious awards in technology,...
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The Mediterranean Food Lab
25.11.2020Members of winning group participated in EIT FAN program, held in Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion in collaboration with Strauss Group Israeli startup The Mediterranean Food Lab is one of the three winners in the לכתבה המלאה
Archives
21.3.2019Browse the online archives of press releases from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology for the past five years ...