Tag Archives: Medicine
Mind over Matter
Ahead of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we sat down for an interview with Technion Professor Asya Rolls, a trailblazing scientist who leads a predominantly female research group that studies the effect of the brain on our body Soul, spirit, mind, consciousness – that something inside us that calls itself… Read More
World Cancer Day 2022
A study carried out at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine sheds light on the mechanisms that sometimes result in successful chemotherapy, but that lead to the development of cancer metastasis – the main cause of cancer mortality. The article, published recently in Cancer Research, was selected to feature as the cover story and written about… Read More
Mitigating Gender Bias in Clinical Trials
The development of drugs and other medical treatments usually begins with basic research, followed by experiments in the laboratory, pre-clinical trials and, finally, clinical trials that confirm both the treatment’s efficacy in humans and its safety. Clinical trials are long and expensive processes that seal the fate of the proposed treatment – whether it will… Read More
The Variant Within
The coronavirus pandemic, also known by its more precise name COVID-19, started in late 2019 and spread rapidly around the world. Although the original form of the novel coronavirus – SARS-CoV-2 – was armed with an effective system against mutations, it was not immune to them. Indeed, the virus has since "split" into strains according… Read More
Genetic Counseling in the Digital Era
Genetic counseling is a complex medical process that includes an explanation of genetic principles and hereditary diseases, risk calculations, and relevant tests. The knowledge revolution in the field of medical genetics makes these conversations increasingly challenging, both for consultants and patients, who need to digest new, complex, and medically complicated information, and translate it into… Read More
Engineering Ears in the Lab
The Future is Here: Technion Researchers and Sheba Medical Center Have Succeeded in Engineering an Ear Researchers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Sheba Medical Center have developed an efficient technology for the fabrication of custom-made functional aesthetic implants for the rehabilitation of congenitally deformed ears. Microtia is a birth defect that… Read More
Keeping the Beat
Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan, entrepreneurs, and venture capital industry representatives attended the final event of the BizTEC Entrepreneurship Program at the Technion. Since its establishment in 2004, graduates of the program have raised a total of more than $1 billion The Defi team, established by Technion students, won first prize and $10,000 in the… Read More
Suture of the Future Fights Infection
“Sutures? That’s practically medieval!” It is a staple of science fiction to mock sutures as outdated. The technique has, after all, been in use for at least 5,000 years. Surely medicine should have advanced since ancient Egypt. Professor Hossam Haick from the Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering at the Technion has finally turned science fiction… Read More
An Inflammation to Remember
Your phone pings. It’s a notification from your friend, who you just went out for a drink with last night. According to her text, she has just tested positive for COVID-19. You start feeling your throat, you sneak a short cough, and start to feel your body temperature rising. But then you calm down (after… Read More
“Nano-Taxis” Shuttle Therapeutics to Neurons
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Assaf Zinger and Dr. Caroline Cvetkovic from the Center for Neuroregeneration at the Houston Methodist Research Institute have created a novel means of delivering medicine to neurons in a targeted manner. They developed biomimetic nano-vesicles, or nature-mimicking, nanometer-scale “vehicles,” capable of specifically targeting neurons (i.e., nerve) cells.… Read More