From the article at haaretz.com: Nazareth native Dr. Hossam Haick is one of the world's leading scientists; he explains how he came up with his idea of detecting cancer via breath tests. In March 2010, the French government made Haick a Knight of the Order of Academic Palms (Chevalier dans l'Ordres des Palmes Academiques ), [...]
From iiknowledge.com: Stem cells are cells with the unique potential to become multiple different types of cell within the body. Most of your cells are equipped to accomplish a specific job, whether carrying oxygen in your blood or transmitting messages to and from your brain. These specialists are known as differentiated cells. Stem cells, on [...]
July 12 - September 1 2016 and hosted by the Technion, Haifa, Israel. The International Space University (ISU) provides graduate-level training to the future leaders of the emerging global space community. This 29th Space Studies Program (SSP) is an eight week program that covers the main space related fields. Read more Image Credit: [...]
From an article by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times via phys.org: Late at night, when the halls around her were empty, Heidi Becker positioned her subject in the crosshairs of an electron-shooting linear accelerator. Along with her companions, she arranged a cartload of heavy lead bricks to make sure the deadly radiation would hit only [...]
From Space News : Poland’s space agency POLSA recently signed an agreement with the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA). The two agencies are to cooperate on joint research, monitoring and developing new telecoms solutions. The agreement was signed by Polish President Andrzej Duda and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the latter’s official visit to Warsaw in [...]
Cells contain thousands of messenger RNA molecules, which carry copies of DNA's genetic instructions to the rest of the cell. MIT engineers have now developed a way to visualize these molecules in higher resolution than previously possible in intact tissues, allowing researchers to precisely map the location of RNA throughout cells. Key [...]
From an article in Science Daily: The discovery power of the gene chip is coming to nanotechnology. Researchers have figured out how to make combinatorial libraries of nanoparticles in a very controlled way. Some of the nanoparticle compositions have never been observed before on Earth. The tool they are developing could be used to rapidly [...]
From an article written by AZoNano: In an ideal situation, implantable or injectable medical devices are expected to be soft just like the body tissues they correlate with besides being electrically functional and small. Researchers from two UChicago labs are investigating the possibility of producing a material comprising all these three characteristics. The June 27th [...]
From Digital Journal: The total removal of digital data is not easily achieved. A new application of electron beams provides a new way of achieving this. Removing information from an electronic device is not easy. While many of us have used devices which have crashed and the data appears irretrievable, often it remains hidden and [...]
From the article by Deena Douara Karim at Toronto: Shaharris Beh doesn’t want to hear about following your passion. More important, he says, is what is your purpose? Beh reveals his purpose is long-term -- enable local tech communities to create sustainable paths to development in impoverished parts of the world: “Economic development [...]
