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  • Israelis perform lifesaving surgery on 10 Tanzanians

    ISRAEL, 2015/07/21 An Israeli delegation of 20 doctors, nurses and medical technicians has returned from Tanzania next performing lifesaving heart surgery on additional than 10 local children and examining hundreds additional with congenital heart defects. The delegation traveled to the eastern African country under the auspices of Wolfson Medical Center’s Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) organization. Some of the youngsters who were examined will be brought to Israel in a few months to undergo cardiac surgery at Wolfson.

  • Prof Avivi, of Haifa University in Israel

    ISRAEL, 2014/08/20 The breakthrough came in a 16-year study of the only ­animal immune to cancer. The discovery by an Israeli specialist was last night hailed as “radical and potentially life-changing”. In a world initial, Professor Aaron Avivi and his team found that cells from the blind mole rat and its cousin the naked mole rat secrete a substance that destroys cancer cells in mammals – inclunding humans. Experts think harvesting this substance and making it safe to digest could wipe out a disease that kills eight million people each year worldwide. Last night Prof Avivi, of Haifa University in Israel was heading to London where he is due to present his findings to professionals.

  • 50 years of bringing brilliant ideas from lab to market

    ISRAEL, 2014/08/17 The a lot of groundbreaking products that came out of the labs of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) – inclunding the blockbuster drugs Exelon and Doxil, inclunding the hardy cherry tomato – may at no time have moved from academia to market without Yissum Research Development Company, founded in February 1964 to protect and commercialize HUJI’s intellectual property. Products based on HUJI inventions generate additional than $2 billion in annual sales. Yissum has registered additional than 8,500 patents and licensed out 700 technologies. The 90 companies spun out from Yissum over the years include a lot of that ISRAEL21c has featured: Mobileye, ClearJet, CollPlant, Avraham Pharmaceuticals, NasVax, BioCancell and Tiltan Pharmaceuticals, to name a few.

  • Fresh Lemon Grass Fields In Israel Become Mecca For Cancer Patients

    ISRAEL, 2014/08/17 A drink with as little as one gram of lemon grass contains enough citral to prompt cancer cells to commit suicide in the test tube according to new Israeli research. At initial, Benny Zabidov, an Israeli agriculturalist who grows greenhouses full of lush spices on a pastoral farm in Kfar Yedidya in the Sharon region, couldn’t understand why so a lot of cancer patients from around the country were showing up on his doorstep asking for fresh lemon grass.

  • Fresh Lemon Grass Fields In Israel Become Mecca For Cancer Patients

    ISRAEL, 2014/08/17 A drink with as little as one gram of lemon grass contains enough citral to prompt cancer cells to commit suicide in the test tube according to new Israeli research. At initial, Benny Zabidov, an Israeli agriculturalist who grows greenhouses full of lush spices on a pastoral farm in Kfar Yedidya in the Sharon region, couldn’t understand why so a lot of cancer patients from around the country were showing up on his doorstep asking for fresh lemon grass.

  • Israeli-American team unveils revolutionary drug in fight against skin cancer

    ISRAEL, 2014/08/15 A groundbreaking biological treatment for cancer jointly developed by Israeli and American researchers has been presented at an international conference on cancer research in Chicago.

  • Israeli scientist leads search for Ebola cure

    ISRAEL, 2014/08/09 Unlike many people, Dr. Leslie Lobel has not been shocked to hear about the current Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the largest ever recorded since the virus’s discovery in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire). A Ben-Gurion University of the Negev virologist and a leader in the search for a cure for the devastating disease, Lobel had been predicting such an outbreak. The quick spread this time of the disease in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria has demonstrated the dire need for the vaccine that Lobel and his team have been working toward for the past 12 years by researching the natural immune system of Ebola survivors in Uganda. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328660580467-1'); }); The virus spreads from person to person through direct contact with bodily fluids. Individuals infected with Ebola usually begin to show symptoms of the disease eight to 10 days after exposure to the virus. Initial symptoms are similar to those of the flu, but in about half of cases, the person begins to hemorrhage. Soon, blood vessels deep inside the body begin to leak fluid. This leads to extremely low blood pressure that causes damage to internal organs. In previous outbreaks, between 60 and 90 percent of cases were fatal.

  • Israel promotes international biotech cooperation

    ISRAEL, 2013/04/28 Israel’s Industry Center for Research and Development accompanied a delegation of 20 local companies to promote cooperation with the US, Canada and Brazil at the annual BIO International Conference in Chicago this week. “The innovations Israeli companies offer attract great interest,” says Yariv Becher, the Economy Ministry’s economic attaché in Chicago, citing the “overwhelming turnout” at a appropriate event for Israeli companies called the North America Israel Biotech Conference.
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