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June 2014

Prof. Fayman Milnefar with Google glasses at the TCE conference held at the Technion. Photo: Yossi Sharam, Technion Spokesperson

"Google glasses are the first to take a sequence of photos and contain an algorithm that fuses them into an improved image"

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Dr. Yaron Shev-Tal, PhD student Liat Altman, PhD student Sharon Junger and Dr. Yuval Groeini. Photo: Bar-Ilan University

Bar-Ilan researchers were able to monitor the activity of a single gene in a living cell in real time

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Cancer tumors in the oral cavity. Illustration: shutterstock

A nanotechnology researcher from Bar Ilan won an award in the UK for a method for the non-invasive detection of cancer in the oral cavity

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wheat From Wikipedia

Winners of the Wolf Prize for Agriculture 2014: Returning genes lost from wild animals to domesticated animals and from wild plants to domesticated plants is essential for improving the food supply * The two are part of the nine winners who received the award from the President of the country

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copy in the test. Illustration: shutterstock

A study of a thousand student papers found that about half were copied

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Teaching evolution in schools. Illustration: shutterstock

The Ministry of Education is bringing evolution back to schools: "In order for the students to understand the issue of ecology, it is important to understand the scientific basis for the differences between the species and the similarities between some of them: evolution"

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Artificial magnetic bacteria - probiotic bacteria surrounded by nanometer particles of iron oxides. The bacteria are living magnets that align with the external magnetic field, so for example in medicine they could be used as magnetic drugs. Illustration: University of Granada

An artificial magnetic bacterium turns food into natural medicine

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Prof. Joachim Messing. From Wikipedia

"When people realize that genetically modified food has good properties for health, they will prefer to consume it"

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