Tag: News

Stem cell therapy may treat anemias

Jerusalem-based stem cell therapy start-up Gamida Cell has launched a feasibility study to evaluate the preclinical (animal study) safety and efficacy of a gene therapy

Ritz Carlton coming to Israel

Earlier this month, the US-based Ritz Carlton hotel chain announced that it will open its first hotel in Israel in March 2012. The investment in

More competitors, less competition

A series of three studies carried out by scientists at the University of Haifa and the University of Michigan found that motivation and performance are

Genieo closes $3 m. in seed funding

Genieo Innovation of Israel, creators of the ultimate home-page personalization engine, announced early this month the closing of US $3 million in seed funding. Backed

Amobee wins WEF technology award

Mobile marketing company Amobee Media Systems has been selected as a World Economic Forum (WEF) Technology Pioneer 2010. The WEF described Amobee “as an innovator

BiondVax shares soar on flu vaccine

Patients developed antibodies against swine flu virus H1N1 and other flu strains in the clinical trial of Israeli universal flu vaccine developer BiondVax Pharmaceuticals. BiondVax

India seeks Israeli water know-how

The Indian government is set to use the latest Israeli technological advances in agriculture and irrigation in a new integrated project to be launched in the

200 journalists, travel pros at Dead Sea

Two hundred journalists and travel industry professionals from around the world are participating in an international marketing conference at the Dead Sea this weekend. The

Biodegradable stents that dissolve

An Israeli researcher has developed new biodegradable fibers that advance stent technology and brain surgery and disappear when their work is done. The new patent-pending