Tag Archives: Medicine
Personalized Medicine
Researchers at the Technion’s Rappaport Faculty of Medicine have developed an innovative algorithm that detects an uninterrupted common denominator in multidimensional data gathered from tumors of different patients. The study, which was published in Cell Systems, was led by Professor Shai Shen-Orr, Dr. Yishai Ofran, and Dr. Ayelet Alpert, and conducted in collaboration between researchers… Read More
Journey to the Target Tissue
Researchers from the Technion and the University of North Carolina (UNC) have developed an algorithm that steers surgical needles along 3D curvilinear trajectories. The researchers – Dr. Oren Salzman of the Taub Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion and Prof. Ron Alterovitz and Mengyu Fu of UNC – announced the development at the recently… Read More
Why are the elderly at risk?
The elderly population appears to be more vulnerable to COVID-19, and vaccines are less effective in protecting them. Why? In her doctoral thesis under the guidance of Professor Doron Melamed, Reem Dowery discovers the answer, explores the aging process of the immunes system, and presents means of rejuvenating it. The findings were recently published in… Read More
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Among the 241 new MDs who received their Technion diplomas this past June, visually impaired Dr. Keren Amiel stands out for overcoming unusual challenges. “I've always wanted to be a doctor, ever since I was a child,” Dr. Amiel says. “I knew it was going to be a challenge, so initially I was apprehensive, but… Read More
Sticker Patch to Diagnose Tuberculosis
Technion scientists have developed a tuberculosis-diagnosing sticker patch. Delayed diagnosis is a significant challenge to treating the deadly disease, which is still prevalent in developing countries Technion scientists have demonstrated a novel means of diagnosing tuberculosis by means of a sticker patch that catches compounds released by the skin. Using an artificial intelligence (AI) analysis… Read More
All Eyes on Stem Cells
Can stem cells be identified and monitored in mature tissue? How do our organs cope with both the need for frequent renewal of tissue cells and the need to protect stem cell health in tissue that is exposed to environmental hazards? Collaboration between two research laboratories in the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion… Read More
How Unwanted Immune Responses are Prevented
Researchers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology’s Rappaport Faculty of Medicine have deciphered a mechanism that plays a key role in control of the immune system, preventing it from “going haywire” following a false alarm. The study was published in the Journal of Immunology and was recommended by the editorial board as a top… Read More
Healing Alliance – Technion & Brazil
Technion and Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, one of Latin America’s largest hospitals, sign MOU to support student exchange, collaborative research, and clinical trials The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo, Brazil, establishing a three-year collaboration between the Technion’s Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and… Read More
Shared Memory
Associate Professor Omri Barak of the Technion has won a prestigious grant for an international research project on memory in biology, computing, and materials Associate Professor Omri Barak, a member of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and a partner in the Network Biology Research Laboratories at the Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences… Read More
When did our brain become “modern”?
Researchers from the Technion and the University of Zurich: Contrary to the prevailing assumption, the brain of the first migrants from Africa to Asia 1.8 million years ago was not a modern brain Researchers from the Technion and the University of Zurich have published a dramatic discovery in Science Magazine about the characteristics of the… Read More