
Medical cannabis meets insomnia and cryptocurrency
SciCann enters partnership with Global Cannabis Applications Corp., and iCAN-Israel Cannabis teams with Aura Medical to deliver insomnia formulation.
Brian has been a journalist and high-tech entrepreneur for over 25 years. He combines this expertise for ISRAEL21c as he writes about hot new local startups, pharmaceutical advances, scientific discoveries, culture, the arts and daily life in Israel. He loves hiking the country with his family (and blogging about it). Originally from California, he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.

SciCann enters partnership with Global Cannabis Applications Corp., and iCAN-Israel Cannabis teams with Aura Medical to deliver insomnia formulation.

Israeli researchers are studying a novel form of protein aggregation that seems to be reversible.

Super-strong steel substitute is self-shielding, has high resistance to heat, is lightweight but very strong, and shows little wear and tear.

Caroline Tabib and Alon Nigri take home gold medals from the 2017 US Para Open Championship in Las Vegas.

In Jerusalem and in the Galilee, Christian communities have an opportunity to pick out a freshly cut tree every year.

Israel’s Waycare – already in use in Las Vegas – helps monitor everything to do with traffic flow, from traffic lights, to road sensors, security cameras and data sent from connected cars.

Roots Sustainable Agricultural Technologies has one technology to stabilize plant root temps and another to irrigate farms with dew condensation.

RoboTiCan’s Rooster can help reach injured victims of natural disasters where it’s not safe to send a human rescue worker.

Hessian Israeli Partnership Accelerator for Cybersecurity brings together top students from both countries to work on joint projects.

Puls, the ‘Uber of home repair,’ takes care of everything from fixing smartphones to hanging a big-screen TV on the wall.

Israeli research gives new insights into the brain mechanisms that lead to alcoholism.

Israeli researchers discover how sponges build glass skeletons that protect them from their environment, opening the way for new glass technologies.

The complexities of remembering when and what to take, often leads patients to accidentally miss doses, interfering with recovery.

New partnership between Israeli air-quality monitoring platform BreezoMeter and popular hiking app Alltrails lets you know if it’s safe to hike today.

The cost to treat obesity in the United States alone is expected to rise from $325 billion in 2014 to $555 billion per year by 2025.