Hey Doc, How’s My Immune System Doing?

A team of Israeli and American researchers says the state of a person’s immune system provides the most accurate measurement of a person’s health. They have developed a way to gauge “immune age,” which could bring about new frontiers in...
14-Mar-2019 8:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Super Sensitive, Groundbreaking Smart Sensor “Tastes” and “Sniffs”

Technion researchers have developed an innovative sensing system capable of identifying and distinguishing different stimuli. Based on origami, and combined with conductive ink the researchers also developed, the multi-functional sensor is capable...
13-Mar-2019 8:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Americans Trust Headlines That Match Their Political Leanings

New findings show that Americans are more likely to believe that a news story is accurate if the headline aligns with their political views — and that it does not matter whether the headline comes from a source that aligns with the reader’s...
7-Feb-2019 2:40 PM EST Add to Favorites

Falafel from Microalgae: Protein for a Hungry World

Graduate students from the Technion recently won first prize in the EIT Food Project Competition for their contribution to the development of a product called “Algalafel.” The novel falafel is enriched with spirulina, an abundant, ecologically...
27-Dec-2018 12:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Found In Translation: Algorithm Could Speed Up Development of New Medical Therapies

A machine learning system developed at the Technion enables estimation of the relevance of lab mice studies to human physiology. The tool is expected to speed up the development of new medical therapies.
26-Nov-2018 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

A New Scientific Field: Quantum Metamaterials

Two teams of scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have collaborated to conduct groundbreaking research leading to the development of a new and innovative scientific field: Quantum Metamaterials.
13-Sep-2018 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Researchers Break Through Intel SGX, Intel's Security Wall

An international team of researchers has broken through Intel’s innovative security wall, Intel Software Guard Extension (SGX). The attack, dubbed Foreshadow, exploits certain weaknesses in the existing mechanisms of Intel CPUs, allowing an...
14-Aug-2018 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Researchers Shrink Tumors in Mice by Manipulating Brain's Reward System

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have successfully shrunk cancerous tumors in mice by manipulating the brain’s reward system. The intervention caused the nervous system to stimulate the immune system.
16-Jul-2018 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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