Writer: Sharon Kanon

A technical gold mine in the Israeli desert

BGN helps university faculty ‘translate’ their inventions and academic achievements into commercially valuable products.B.G. Negev Technologies and Applications Ltd., the commercial arm of Ben-Gurion University,

Israeli health expert tackles obesity

Professor Elliot M. Berry: Israeli research confirms the link between overeating and the incidence of diabetes and hypertension and related disease.There are currently nine million

Finding the right match

25,000 people showed up last week at sixty testing centers in Israel to find a match for nine year old Matthew, an American who developed

On the crest of medical advances

Using the nuclear medicine technologycalled Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Hadassah scientists are making giant leaps in the science of pinpointing diagnosis and treatment of disease.Unraveling

Feeding the poor and the hungry

‘Scientists now have more knowledge of plant biology than ever before in the history of plant science.’Hunger is the greatest cause of death in the