An Israeli-tested drug that tackles cancer through sophisticated manipulations of the body’s natural immune system was key in helping rid former US president Jimmy Carter of life-threatening tumors that developed after he was diagnosed with melanoma earlier this year. Researched in Israel by Professor Jacob Schachter of the Ella Institute for melanoma treatment and research at … [Read more...]
Archives for 2015
High-Protein Grasshoppers Are About To Jump Onto Your Plate
December 9, 2015 by
They may not look like lunch to you, but to many people around the world, grasshoppers add a high-protein, low-fat crunch to their diet. And in true Israeli startup tradition, the Israeli company Steak TzarTzar has innovated a way to lengthen the normally short breeding season of edible grasshoppers by leaps and bounds. As a result, this costly and scarce source of nutrition … [Read more...]
Siberia Comes Shopping For Israeli Health Innovation
December 5, 2015 by
Hospital officials from Tomsk visited Israel to scout out biomed and telemed companies for the Siberian region’s new Medicine of the Future project. Officials from nine hospitals and clinics in the Tomsk region of Siberia recently visited Israel to scout out Israeli biomedical innovations they can incorporate into Tomsk’s new Medicine of the Future project for its population … [Read more...]
Israeli Invention To Fight AIDS Wins Coveted Tech Prize
November 30, 2015 by
Life-saving circumcision procedure, already used by 100,000 men in developing countries, makes the cut at this year’s ‘Oscars of Silicon Valley’ If you want to make a man feel really uncomfortable, talk to him about circumcising his penis. I should know, I do it every day,” declares a smiling Sabelo Dlamini in the opening of a film shown at this month’s Tech Awards 2015 … [Read more...]
Alzheimer’s Not Just One Disease, Scientists Say
November 29, 2015 by
Israeli researchers propose that the degenerative brain disorder can result from separate causes that must be classified and treated separately. Health professionals should consider Alzheimer’s disease as a collection of disorders to be treated separately, according to an Israeli-American biomedical research team led by Prof. Ehud Cohen and postdoctoral fellow Tziona … [Read more...]
