Tag Archives: Biology
Technion Researchers Honored
The grants are being awarded to the following faculty members: Dr. Ayala Shiber of the Faculty of Biology is exploring how RNA molecules in the cell direct proteins to fold to their native, functional state and avoid misfolding. She was awarded the ERC grant for her research on cellular mechanisms that protect proteins during synthesis… Read More
Booster Vaccine Effectiveness
Researchers from Maccabi KSM Research and Innovation Center, in collaboration with researchers from the Technion, found that the effect of the COVID-19 booster shot on lowering the viral load is waning, similar to the second dose of the vaccine A new study by Maccabi KSM Research and Innovation Center (Kahn-Sagol-Maccabi), headed by Dr. Tal Patalon,… Read More
Fishing Energy from the Sea
Electricity from the Sea: Researchers from the Technion have developed a new method that harvests an electrical current directly from seaweed in an environmentally friendly and efficient fashion. The idea, which came to doctoral student Yaniv Shlosberg while he was on the beach, has been developed by a consortium of researchers from three Technion Faculties… Read More
Does Diet Dictate Sleep ?
Are you a morning lark or a night owl? In both cases, it may have something to do with your gut bacteria. This was the finding of joint research carried out by scientists from the University of Haifa and the Technion, which shows that there is hope for change for people whose sleep habits are… Read More
AI Improves Accuracy of Antibiotic Selection
Doctors at Maccabi Healthcare Services have recently begun to work with an AI-based predictive algorithm developed by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology together with KSM (Kahn-Sagol-Maccabi), the Maccabi Research and Innovation Center. The new algorithm advises doctors in the process of deciding on personalized antibiotic treatment for patients. The first diagnosis on which… Read More
Emergency Pathway Saves Cells with Protein Damage
An international research team headed by Technion scientists has found an alternative manner for eliminating damaged proteins when the cells are impaired by “oxygen radicals,” as can happen in failing human hearts where there is poor cell respiration and cells become oxygen depleted, or suffer “hypoxia,” because of poor oxygen uptake. Significantly, the researchers discovered… Read More
Prof. Roy Kishony Awarded Landau Prize
The prestigious 2021 Landau Award in Bioinformatics has been awarded to Prof. Roy Kishony of the Faculty of Biology and the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. The prize is awarded annually by the Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts to outstanding artists and scientists who made… Read More
Biology Jubilee
Our Faculty of Biology marks 50 years of academic and research excellence. Founded in the fall of 1971, the faculty started out as the Horace W. Goldsmith Institute of General and Industrial Microbiology. Now, most of its labs are housed in the the Emerson Life Sciences Building, which was completed in 2011. Over the years,… Read More
Not Just COVID: Viruses Spread by Aerosols
SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind today’s global coronavirus pandemic, spreads primarily by inhalation of virus-laden aerosols at both short and long ranges, and a comprehensive new assessment of respiratory viruses finds that many others probably do as well. SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, influenza, measles, and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold can all spread via aerosols that… Read More
Cells Expressing Tendon Markers Fuse into Muscles
Researchers at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have made a breakthrough discovery that muscle fibers are of hybrid origins, and their tips have a "fibroblastic, tendon-like property" that arises from fibroblasts' fusion. The researchers’ findings highlight a mechanism that enables a smooth transition from muscle fiber characteristics… Read More