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    Technion - Israel Institute of Technology > Medicine > Page 2

    Tag Archives: Medicine

    Take a Bow

    07/03/2022

    At the age of eight, Tamar Koren began playing the violin. “I fell in love with the sound of this instrument, a sound full of depth and expression. Over the years, playing the violin became a central part of my life: concerts, courses, master classes, auditions, hours of practice every day. I guess anyone who… Read More

    Israel Prize to Profs. Zak, Palti

    06/03/2022

    Two Technion professors will receive the prestigious Israel Prize in May 2022: Prof. Emeritus Joshua Zak of the Faculty of Physics will be awarded the 2022 Israel Prize for Physics and Chemistry Research. Known for the Zak Transform and the Zak Phase, Prof. Zak is awarded for his contribution to the understanding of condensed matter physics.… Read More

    Huntington’s, ALS – Where the Body Fails

    13/02/2022

    Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, ALS, and multiple other neurodegenerative diseases have a commonality: they are all characterized by proteins (different ones for each disease) aggregating in neurons within the brain and nervous system. Now, Technion scientists have found that the cells have the mechanisms to clear those aggregates – they just fail to activate them. Their study… Read More

    Mind over Matter

    10/02/2022
    פרופ' אסיה רולס

    Ahead of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we sat down for an interview with Technion Professor Asya Rolls, a trailblazing scientist who leads a predominantly female research group that studies the effect of the brain on our body    Soul, spirit, mind, consciousness – that something inside us that calls itself… Read More

    World Cancer Day 2022

    04/02/2022

    A study carried out at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine sheds light on the mechanisms that sometimes result in successful chemotherapy, but that lead to the development of cancer metastasis – the main cause of cancer mortality. The article, published recently in Cancer Research, was selected to feature as the cover story and written about… Read More

    Mitigating Gender Bias in Clinical Trials

    31/01/2022

    The development of drugs and other medical treatments usually begins with basic research, followed by experiments in the laboratory, pre-clinical trials and, finally, clinical trials that confirm both the treatment’s efficacy in humans and its safety. Clinical trials are long and expensive processes that seal the fate of the proposed treatment – whether it will… Read More

    The Variant Within

    The coronavirus pandemic, also known by its more precise name COVID-19, started in late 2019 and spread rapidly around the world. Although the original form of the novel coronavirus – SARS-CoV-2 – was armed with an effective system against mutations, it was not immune to them. Indeed, the virus has since "split" into strains according… Read More

    Genetic Counseling in the Digital Era

    26/01/2022

    Genetic counseling is a complex medical process that includes an explanation of genetic principles and hereditary diseases, risk calculations, and relevant tests. The knowledge revolution in the field of medical genetics makes these conversations increasingly challenging, both for consultants and patients, who need to digest new, complex, and medically complicated information, and translate it into… Read More

    Engineering Ears in the Lab

    12/12/2021

    The Future is Here: Technion Researchers and Sheba Medical Center Have Succeeded in Engineering an Ear Researchers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Sheba Medical Center have developed an efficient technology for the fabrication of custom-made functional aesthetic implants for the rehabilitation of congenitally deformed ears. Microtia is a birth defect that… Read More

    Keeping the Beat

    30/11/2021
    First prize winners. Right to left: Ohad Yaniv, Eyal Kellner, Yaron Arbel, Alon Gilad, Idan Shenfeld, Ravit Abel and Prof. Ezri Tarazi

    Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan, entrepreneurs, and venture capital industry representatives attended the final event of the BizTEC Entrepreneurship Program at the Technion. Since its establishment in 2004, graduates of the program have raised a total of more than $1 billion The Defi team, established by Technion students, won first prize and $10,000 in the… Read More

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