Maya Yarowsky, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News Nearly one in eight people over the age of 65 in the United States are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease each year. As this alarming rate continues to grow, Israeli company NeuroQuest is dedicated to revert this trend. Their technology is based on the measurement of certain immune biomarkers (indicators of the biological state of the organs) in the patient’s bloodstream. This new method of testing for neurodegenerative diseases may change the way …More

Israeli researchers are testing a new method to turn brown coal into an environmentally friendly fuel source. The project, located at Weizmann Institute of Science, plans to use highly focused solar rays to reduce the CO2 emissions caused by burning fossil fuels. “Our plan is to make the coal burning less polluting in every sense, in terms of greenhouse gas, and our technology can also scrub the other pollutants from the emissions,” said Professor Jacob Karni, the head of NewCO2 Fuels, the firm …More

NoCamels Team, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News While humans use mainly their sight and sense of touch to locate objects in their environment, rats use an entirely different sense – whisking. Rats move their facial whiskers back and forth about eight times per second to sense what’s around them. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel tried to figure out if humans could acquire this sense. And if they can, what could understanding the process of adapting to new sensory input tell …More

Chaim Weizmann is remembered in Jewish history as Israel’s first president, but this was only the apex of a varied trajectory that included groundbreaking scientific discoveries, humanitarianism, and a whirlwind political movement. As the New York Times wrote in his 1952 obituary, “Chaim Weizmann's life was sufficiently full of adventure, romance, accomplishment and fulfillment to have been lived by a dozen men.” Weizmann is a product of humble beginnings. Born in 1874 near Pinsk, Belarus …More

NoCamels Team, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News Hiding deep inside our bone marrow — the flexible tissue found in the interior of bones — are special cells. They wait patiently for the hour of need, at which point these blood forming stem cells can proliferate and differentiate into billions of mature blood cells to help the body cope with infection, for example, or they can turn into extra red blood cells for low oxygen levels at high altitudes. Even in emergencies, however, the body sticks to a …More

Belgium will bestow its highest civilian honor on Daniel Zajfman, an Israeli physicist and president of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Zajfman, who was born in Brussels and immigrated to Israel in 1979, will receive the title of Commander of the Order of Leopold on November 4 in a small ceremony at the Embassy of Belgium in Tel Aviv for his efforts to advance science, according to the Belgian Royal House. Zajfman told JTA he was “deeply honored” to receive the title of commander, the third …More

NoCamels Team, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News An Israeli medical device that is saving lives in intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide is now being tested at a dozen US hospital emergency departments to see if it could keep patients out of intensive care. The NICOM (non-invasive cardiac output monitor), made in Israel by the Tel Aviv-based Cheetah Medical, is a uniquely non-invasive system used by medical centers in several countries to monitor hemodynamics – the movement of blood from the heart to the …More

While sleeping, the brain can strengthen information it previously processed, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Subjects who participated in the study were able to associate tones with smells when awake after being exposed to both simultaneously during sleep. As a participant slept, a tone was played and then an odor was presented. An unpleasant odor was given with one noise, while a pleasant one was presented with another. The subject's breathing patterns …More

NoCamels Team, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News Prof. Ronnie Kozlov from the Israel Science Foundation thinks that ethanol would be better as a beer than as a grain-based fuel supplement served from a gas pump. That’s why he is looking forward to results from a new Israeli government initiative, a research startup fund called I-CORE – an acronym for Israeli Centers for Research Excellence. One of the first I-CORE facilities, opened in August, is dedicated to renewable energy research. This is one …More

Three Israeli universities ranked among the top 100 in a prestigious annual ranking of the world's universities. It was the first time that three Israeli universities were listed among the Top 100 by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Hebrew University was ranked 53rd, up four places from last year, while Technion-Israel Institute of Technology entered the list at 78th place and Weizmann Institute of Science at 93rd. Harvard remains No. 1 for the 10th …More

NoCamels Team, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News New research done at the Weizmann Institute, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin and California Institute of Technology, suggests that sulfur plays a large role in regulating atmospheric oxygen levels. As sulfur cycles through the earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land, it undergoes chemical changes that are often coupled with changes in other elements, such as oxygen. Although this affects concentrations of free oxygen, sulfur has traditionally …More

Vecoy Nanomedicines, a startup that uses nanotechnology to fight deadly viruses, was selected as the first place winner of the elite 8200 Association competition, officials announced July 9. The Israeli startup uses groundbreaking nanotechnology to fight HIV/AIDS and other viruses. The nano-cell technology is also capable of protecting against bio-warfare. “Our planet is a haven for viral outbreaks like never before in the history of the world,” said founder and CEO Erez Livneh, a graduate of the …More