February 2, 2018

The optical system in the laboratory - a collaboration between the Technion and CREOL. Source: Technion spokesmen.

Semiconductor lasers: the next generation

algae. It still needs to be proven that platinum protects the human skin even outside the sterile laboratory. Photograph: Gugulethu Mhlanga.

Is the sunscreen of the future hiding in algae?

Laboratory flasks containing thousands of white blood cells from a patient who developed "immune tolerance" to the donor after a bone marrow transplant. The cells show no signs of rejection of the donor cells (three columns on the left), but secrete chemicals that indicate rejection (indicated in red) when exposed to the cells of a third person (three columns on the right). Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Education for tolerance

The mud crab. Source: Anirnoy, Wikimedia Commons.

On crustaceans in the dark and sensing mechanism