Israeli MDs help fix 155 African facial defects in 8 days
Craniofacial and plastic surgeons from Haifa join Operation Smile team from 12 countries in Ghana, giving local families something to smile about.
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.
Craniofacial and plastic surgeons from Haifa join Operation Smile team from 12 countries in Ghana, giving local families something to smile about.
Ceremony on Sept. 30 in Switzerland will see Israeli basketball star Mickey Berkowitz inducted along with the likes of Shaquille O’Neal.
Personalized cancer treatment maker, Kite Pharma, is led by Israeli-American oncologist and based on research from Israel’s Weizmann Institute.
Free text-to-speech smartphone app mimics the function of a venue’s directory board, orienting a visitor toward the proper direction.
Israeli startup RetiSpec plans to build and begin testing its unique Alzheimer’s ocular scanner in the next 12 months.
Israeli scientists synthesize healthier potatoes and tomatoes in brilliant colors. The technology can also produce unusually hued ornamental flowers.
The human brain’s ability to limit the quantity of data it can receive and recall may be a valuable model for improving artificial intelligence.
An Israeli startup combines wearables and optics to provide the breath volume monitoring needed to keep patients safe in the operating room.
Reineh excavations in the Galilee unearth thousands of chalkstone cores and other types of production waste, including fragments of mugs and bowls.
A new Israeli-Dutch study finds smileys in work mails may do more harm than good, creating a negative impact.
Researchers surprised to find that taking a specific drug regimen 5 days pre- and post-surgery and on day of surgery cuts risk of recurrence.
Israel’s high-tech expertise is a perfect fit for automakers building the systems that will put self-driving cars on the road safely and securely.
Research was done on five men from a single Bedouin tribe suffering from azoospermia, a lack of sperm production.
There are close to 300 travel-related companies in the startup nation. We chose 10 that are red hot.
Israel’s ReWalk is working with Harvard on developing an ‘exosuit’ to help MS and stroke patients regain mobility.