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Development of the Technion will allow the creation of cells and tissues deep in the body in a non-invasive way with the help of ultrasound

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The applicability of the new technology is demonstrated in the contexts of local cell transplantation, drug transport for controlled local release over time and 3D bioprinting. The mechanical properties of the scaffolds can be adjusted according to the target tissue and the desired drug release rate
The cover photo on the issue: Cell Host & Microbe This is how the bacteriophages (in purple) affect the function of the bacteria by reversing the DNA - a reversal that changes their effect on the immune system. This effect is demonstrated by changing the color of the bacteria from yellow to green. Illustration credit: Tomm Blum

Gut bacteria are able to change their 'software' in response to inflammation, which may affect the immune system

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The intestine is a very dynamic organ that is constantly changing structurally, mechanically and chemically, and the intestinal bacteria are required to cope with this dynamism. One of the features that may help them in this is plasticity - the ability to undergo rapid genomic changes in response to changes in environmental conditions
Prof. Jackie Schiller. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Two researchers from the Technion won ERC Advanced grants

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Prof. Michael Glickman and Prof. Jackie Schiller from the Technion won ERC Advanced grants - prestigious grants on behalf of the European Union's Horizon Europe program given to veteran researchers with unprecedented achievements in research in the last decade. Each of them will receive 2.5 million euros
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thrown in the trash

On the religious and cultural factors that lead to food waste in households
The late Capt. Denis Krokhmalov-Wexler. From the private archive

Students at the Technion will design the NOVA-SAT satellite in memory of the late Captain Denis Krokhmalov-Wexler in cooperation with the TAA

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The late Krukhamlov-Wexler, was supposed to start his studies this year at the Faculty of Aeronautics and Space Engineering and who was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip
The Minister of Education at the time, Yifat Shasha-Biton awards the 2022 Israel Physics and Chemistry Research Prize to Prof. Yehoshua Zak

The Technion mourns the death of Prof. Emeritus Yehoshua Zak, one of the founders of the Faculty of Physics and laureate of the Israel Prize for Physics and Chemistry Research

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Prof. Zak, a survivor of the Vilna ghetto led scientific breakthroughs and two phenomena in physics are named after him. He was a student of Prof. Natan Rosen, Albert Einstein's research partner. Prof. Zak spent his entire career at the Technion
Dr. Catherine Vandorna. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion spokesperson

This is how the bone marrow reacts to injuries and infections

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Dr. Kathryn Vandorna from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion developed a new method that allows the monitoring of the formation of immune blood cells in the bone marrow. For this purpose, she used tiny magnetic particles of iron oxide, which she followed with various imaging methods, including MRI of the living creature
Illustration of the crater created during the collision between the DART spacecraft and the Dimorphos asteroid. In the background: the European HERA spacecraft and its nanosatellites (CubeSats) in follow-up research. Credit: ESA Science Office

repel the asteroid

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Technion researchers are partners in the HERA space mission: first attempt in history to divert an asteroid from its orbit
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For the first time in Israel: the Technion Institute presents a practical certificate study program for the training of high-tech workers in quantum technology

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The first study program of its kind from the Technion House of Continuing Studies is designed to train professional and skilled personnel for the industry that deals with computing and quantum technology, which is developing by leaps and bounds and is expected to change the tech worlds from end to end and among other things to provide solutions to security challenges that the State of Israel faces even these days
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Three Israeli studies to address the climate crisis won the KKL-Canada Annual Climate Prize in the amount of one million dollars

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The prize was awarded to Israeli scientists from Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv and the Technion in order to promote their extraordinary research in the fields of renewable energy development and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
Advances in cancer immunotherapy. The image was produced by DALLE 3 artificial intelligence software and is intended for impressions. It should not be seen as a scientific picture

Technion researchers present a significant improvement in predicting the success of immunotherapy treatments

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The technology developed by Prof. Yuval Shaked's research group was registered as a patent and is now in the process of being commercialized
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How does light propagate in silicon?

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Technion researchers answer this question and pave new paths for applications in communication, imaging and quantum computing
- Spin laser on an atomic scale: the image describes the laser resonator structure consisting of two types of nanoantenna structures. The radiation is trapped in the internal structure only (yellow). The active layer of the laser - a single atomic layer - is on the resonator. The laser beam is split into two beams by the opposite spins of the photons (light particles), which can be controlled with the help of the laser pump (credit: Scholardesigner co, LTD).

Positive spin - research at the Technion was selected as one of the breakthroughs in photonics in 2023

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The development is a spin laser from a single atomic layer - a development by Prof. Erez Hasman from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Prof. Elad Koren from the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering.
Prof. Yoav Shechtman. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Prestigious European grants to three researchers at the Technion

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The grant is intended to prove the programming and promote the translation of academic research into application and commercialization, including the establishment of the start-up company
Dr. Shulamit Levenberg. Photo: The Technion

Prof. Shulamit Levenberg from the Technion was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in the USA

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The announcement of her election will take place at the Academy's annual conference to be held in June 2024 in North Carolina
Prof. Ado Kaminer in his laboratory. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson

Towards the discovery of quantum phenomena that have not yet been observed: Prof. Ado Kaminer of the Technion won an ERC Consolidator grant

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"The observations will be made possible through the control we have developed over the wave nature of free electrons," explains Prof. Kaminer
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Make a correction

An advanced algorithm makes it possible to quickly retrieve information from the memory of systems such as phones and computers and correct errors
A control algorithm developed by researchers at the Technion that helps robots walk on smooth surfaces. Photo courtesy of the researchers

Caution, slip hazard

Researchers have developed a control algorithm that helps robots walk on smooth surfaces
scientific picture. A XNUMXD model system of human neurons in a dish. In green and purple: nerve cells expressing a protein that is defective in the ubiquitin system. As a result of this expression, the pathology that characterizes Alzheimer's patients is created - the formation of amyloid clusters (in red) outside the cells

Technion researchers have identified the mechanism leading to the formation of protein aggregates involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease

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Toxic proteins accumulate in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. In the familial Alzheimer's patients, the accumulation mechanism is clear since there is a circumstantial relationship between the mutations and the identity of the defective proteins. In the random disease, on the other hand, the reason for the accumulation of the defective proteins was unknown
On the right: sperm cell of a healthy mouse. On the left: the product (protein) of the SCAPER gene (colored in red). The photograph shows that SCAPER is located at the head of the sperm cell, including in the nucleus

Between the retina, brain and fertility

On the spectrum of disorders caused by a defect in one gene
Friedrich Wilhelm Leibniz. Illustration: depositphotos.com

On the infinity of the natural machine

Prof. Ohad Nachumi, Head of the Department of Humanistic Studies and Arts at the Technion, investigates the connection between the old and new world of thought in Leibniz's thought.
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Researchers at the Technion are developing methods for monitoring suicidal tendencies using artificial intelligence

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In recent years, with the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and the proliferation of machine learning models, methods based on computational learning have been developed in suicide research. Because of this, it was decided in the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences at the Technion to hold a datathon on the topic of developing tools for early monitoring of suicidal tendencies
From 0 to 100%: the prediction provided by the model for metasynergy between different drugs

Drug combination in the fight against cancer: an innovative approach that combines biology, chemistry and artificial intelligence

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Damage to the motor nerves in Duchenne patients. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Improving the function of the heart muscle in Duchenne patients

Producing heart cells from skin cells made it possible to discover defects that lead to heart failure
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Prestigious grant for Technion researchers: Towards a complete system for storing DNA information

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The field of DNA-based computing is considered one of the most promising directions in the world of information today, since a single gram of DNA may store enormous information within it, it will be possible to save a lot of energy and store a much larger volume of data
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