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Viruses attack bacteria. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Protection against viruses - the passive version

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Researchers at the Faculty of Biology at the Technion discovered a unique mechanism that protects marine bacteria from viruses that attack them
When a point electromagnetic source that propagates perfect circular wavefronts (bottom row, left) is placed in front of a rigid dielectric surface, significant reflections and distortions in the wavefronts are observed (bottom row, right). When the same surface is coated with metal formations designed in the article according to the Generalized Huygens' Condition, the disturbances disappear thanks to the general-angular irregularities (bottom row, middle) and the ideal propagation is fully restored (as if the waves were propagating in free space, similar to the scenario on the left). Top row: Left: the measurement setup in which the surface (device) is illuminated and the field transmitted by a detector (detector) is measured. Middle: the dielectric surface that is created with a coating to suppress reflections at all angles. Right: reference surface without the coating (for which a significant return was observed).

Researchers at the Technion have developed a technology that gives "electromagnetic transparency" to hard surfaces

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This type of transparency is relevant to a wide variety of applications including flat antennas, analog-optical computing devices and compact imaging systems
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The Technion will award the Harvey Prize to three groundbreaking researchers in the field of cancer epigenetics

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Prof. Peter Jones, Prof. Steven Bailin and Prof. Andrew Feinberg will receive the Harvey Award in the field of science and technology for their contribution to the diagnosis of diseases and the development of treatments based on the understanding of epigenetic mechanisms
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What do espresso, oil and microgels have in common?

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Researchers at the Technion have developed an innovative method for producing vital particles that can be used as biological sensors for the worlds of food, medicine, environmental science and more
Transferring the calculation from the memory to the processor itself. The image was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image

Researchers at the Technion have developed a software package that allows the calculation to be transferred from the processor into the computer's memory itself

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This is an important step towards the development of computers that will perform calculations in memory, without the need to transfer the information between the various components - a transfer that takes a lot of time and consumes a lot of energy
The Art of the Fungi - Isolation from air samples by Dr. Naama Lang Yona. Presented at an art exhibition at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Photo: Ohad Harkes.

Like mushrooms after the heat angle

The mysterious world of fungi: how they affect our allergies and epidemics in agriculture, and how all this will change in our warming world
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Research at the Faculty of Biology at the Technion paves the way for innovative lung cancer treatment

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In the diagram: measurement of biomechanical forces applied to alpaca wool in torsion (above) and compression (below) states.

Breakthrough in mechanobiology - accurate measurement of forces in biological processes

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The development of the Technion researchers is expected to speed up, optimize and reduce industrial processes of polymer production as well
A park in Shanghai. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Again this year, three Israeli universities star among the top 100 in the Shanghai Index

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The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Weizmann Institute and the Technion in Haifa are three Israeli institutions that entered the Shanghai Index 2024, the list of the XNUMX best academic institutions in the world
Scientific image: Right: Creation of amyloids from eggs and whey protein. Left: their consumption in food and their journey in the digestive system.

Processed food - nothing to panic

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Researchers at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering have discovered that incorporating amyloids into processed food has significant nutritional and health benefits
Electrodes in different areas of the brain reveal brain activity in real time. The colored dots show the locations of all electrodes in all patients, color coded by brain region. The red dots in the lower images show the electrode locations in the DMN. From the study.

Neurologists have identified the origins of creativity in the brain

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Creativity is a unique brain function. Local damage to the brain as a result of a stroke can lead to changes in creative ability—both positive and negative. This discovery suggests that the neurological basis of creativity can be narrowed down.
Prof. Asia Rolls. Photo: Technion spokespeople

The European Organization for Molecular Biology EMBO adds three researchers from the Technion to its ranks

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Prof. Asia Rolls from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Professors Oded Beja and Benny Podbilevitz from the Faculty of Biology were elected as new members of EMBO, the European Organization for Molecular Biology. Their joining the organization will be celebrated at the EMBO event that will be held in Heidelberg and begin
The picture of the mathematician Remanjuan next to a complicated formula he developed Photo credit: Technion spokesmen

Have breakthroughs in mathematics been discovered through artificial intelligence?

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The researchers of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion developed an algorithm for discovering new formulas and new relationships between mathematical constants
In the upper picture, a knowledge update in the model was carried out with the help of ReFACT. On the left, the original images produced by the model. On the right, after editing. The edits also successfully generalize to close formulations, and show that the method succeeds in performing a significant edit in the knowledge encoded in the model. In the bottom picture, the correction of the gender bias when the input is "A developer". Left: before editing with TIME (implicit assumption: A developer is a man). Right: after editing. Courtesy of the Technion

Correcting biases and updating knowledge in models that generate images

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"In their training process, models also learn a lot of factual knowledge about the world. For example, models learn the identities of prime ministers, presidents and even actors who played popular characters in TV series. Such models stop
Nanotechnological materials. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Nanomaterials from both worlds

Researchers grow inorganic materials inside polymers and thus create nanomaterials and nanostructures with improved properties
Olive vineyard in organic farming. Photography: Raz Simon

More profitable agriculture: the method of growing olives that is good for the economy and the environment

A new Israeli study examined how different methods of agriculture affect the environment and the landscape versus the benefits for the farmer. The findings show that there is a method that makes it possible to both generate economic profit and preserve nature
In the photo, from right to left: Dr. Tanya Dubovic, Prof. Shai Shen-Or, Dr. Alina Strusvetsky and Dr. Martin Lukachishin

Research sheds light on the constant evolution of the immune system

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The researchers of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion show in their article in Nature how the immune system has developed a "developmental space" that allows it to quickly adapt to changes in the environment
Technion President Prof. Uri Sion awards Prof. Ada Yonat the honorary degree. Photo: Rami Shloush, Technion Spokesperson

The Technion awarded an honorary doctorate to writer David Grossman and Nobel laureate Prof. Ada Yonat

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Prof. Ada Yonat from the Weizmann Institute of Science, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, received an honorary doctorate "in recognition of her pioneering contribution to the research of the ribosome - the universal complex for translating genetic information into proteins
Dr. Chaya Keller, 2024 Krill Prize winner. Courtesy of the Wolf Foundation

Ten winners of the Krill Award for Excellence in Scientific Research have been announced

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The Wolf Foundation in cooperation with the Israeli research universities selected the team of promising researchers of the Israeli Academy for 2024
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Development of the Technion will allow the creation of cells and tissues deep in the body in a non-invasive way with the help of ultrasound

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The applicability of the new technology is demonstrated in the contexts of local cell transplantation, drug transport for controlled local release over time and 3D bioprinting. The mechanical properties of the scaffolds can be adjusted according to the target tissue and the rate
The cover photo on the issue: Cell Host & Microbe This is how the bacteriophages (in purple) affect the function of the bacteria by reversing the DNA - a reversal that changes their effect on the immune system. This effect is demonstrated by changing the color of the bacteria from yellow to green. Illustration credit: Tomm Blum

Gut bacteria are able to change their 'software' in response to inflammation, which may affect the immune system

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The intestine is a very dynamic organ that is constantly changing structurally, mechanically and chemically, and the intestinal bacteria are required to cope with this dynamism. One of the qualities that may help them in this is plasticity - the ability
Prof. Jackie Schiller. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Two researchers from the Technion won ERC Advanced grants

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Prof. Michael Glickman and Prof. Jackie Schiller from the Technion won ERC Advanced grants - prestigious grants on behalf of the European Union's Horizon Europe program given to veteran researchers with unprecedented achievements in research in a decade
Throwing food in the trash. Illustration: depositphotos.com

thrown in the trash

On the religious and cultural factors that lead to food waste in households
The late Capt. Denis Krokhmalov-Wexler. From the private archive

Students at the Technion will design the NOVA-SAT satellite in memory of the late Capt. Denis Krokhmalov-Wexler in collaboration with the TAA

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The late Krukhamlov-Wexler, was supposed to start his studies this year at the Faculty of Aeronautics and Space Engineering and who was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip
The Minister of Education at the time, Yifat Shasha-Biton awards the 2022 Israel Physics and Chemistry Research Prize to Prof. Yehoshua Zak

The Technion mourns the death of Prof. Emeritus Yehoshua Zak, one of the founders of the Faculty of Physics and laureate of the Israel Prize for Physics and Chemistry Research

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Prof. Zak, a survivor of the Vilna ghetto led scientific breakthroughs and two phenomena in physics are named after him. He was a student of Prof. Natan Rosen, Albert Einstein's research partner. Prof. Zak spent the
Dr. Catherine Vandorna. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion spokesperson

This is how the bone marrow reacts to injuries and infections

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Dr. Kathryn Vandorna from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion has developed a new method that allows the monitoring of the formation of immune blood cells in the bone marrow. For this purpose, she used tiny magnetic particles of iron oxide, which
Illustration of the crater created during the collision between the DART spacecraft and the Dimorphos asteroid. In the background: the European HERA spacecraft and its nanosatellites (CubeSats) in follow-up research. Credit: ESA Science Office

repel the asteroid

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Technion researchers are partners in the HERA space mission: first attempt in history to divert an asteroid from its orbit
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For the first time in Israel: the Technion Institute presents a practical certificate study program for the training of high-tech workers in quantum technology

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The first study program of its kind from the Technion Continuing Studies is designed to train professional and skilled personnel for the industry dealing with computing and quantum technology, which is developing by leaps and bounds and is expected to change the tech worlds from end to end
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Three Israeli studies to deal with the climate crisis won the KKL-Canada annual climate prize in the amount of one million dollars

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The prize was awarded to Israeli scientists from Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv and the Technion in order to promote their extraordinary research in the fields of renewable energy development and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
Advances in cancer immunotherapy. The image was produced by DALLE 3 artificial intelligence software and is intended for impressions. It should not be seen as a scientific picture

Technion researchers present a significant improvement in predicting the success of immunotherapy treatments

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The technology developed by Prof. Yuval Shaked's research group was registered as a patent and is now in the process of being commercialized
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How does light propagate in silicon?

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Technion researchers answer this question and pave new paths for applications in communication, imaging and quantum computing
- Spin laser on an atomic scale: the image describes the laser resonator structure consisting of two types of nanoantenna structures. The radiation is trapped in the internal structure only (yellow). The active layer of the laser - a single atomic layer - is on the resonator. The laser beam is split into two beams by the opposite spins of the photons (light particles), which can be controlled with the help of the laser pump (credit: Scholardesigner co, LTD).

Positive spin - research at the Technion was selected as one of the breakthroughs in photonics in 2023

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The development is a spin laser from a single atomic layer - a development by Prof. Erez Hasman from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Prof. Elad Koren from the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering.
Prof. Yoav Shechtman. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Prestigious European grants to three researchers at the Technion

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The grant is intended to prove the programming and promote the translation of academic research into application and commercialization, including the establishment of the start-up company
Dr. Shulamit Levenberg. Photo: The Technion

Prof. Shulamit Levenberg of the Technion was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in the USA

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The announcement of her election will take place at the Academy's annual conference to be held in June 2024 in North Carolina
Prof. Ado Kaminer in his laboratory. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson

Towards the discovery of quantum phenomena that have not yet been observed: Prof. Ado Kaminer of the Technion won an ERC Consolidator grant

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"The observations will be made possible through the control we have developed over the wave nature of free electrons," explains Prof. Kaminer
Small bits of information. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Make a correction

An advanced algorithm makes it possible to quickly retrieve information from the memory of systems such as phones and computers and correct errors
A control algorithm developed by researchers at the Technion that helps robots walk on smooth surfaces. Photo courtesy of the researchers

Caution, slip hazard

Researchers have developed a control algorithm that helps robots walk on smooth surfaces
scientific picture. A XNUMXD model system of human neurons in a dish. In green and purple: nerve cells expressing a protein that is defective in the ubiquitin system. As a result of this expression, the pathology that characterizes Alzheimer's patients is created - the formation of amyloid clusters (in red) outside the cells

Technion researchers have identified the mechanism leading to the formation of protein aggregates involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease

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Toxic proteins accumulate in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. In the familial Alzheimer's patients, the accumulation mechanism is clear since there is a circumstantial relationship between the mutations and the identity of the defective proteins. In the random disease, on the other hand, the cause of the accumulation of proteins
On the right: sperm cell of a healthy mouse. On the left: the product (protein) of the SCAPER gene (colored in red). The photograph shows that SCAPER is located at the head of the sperm cell, including in the nucleus

Between the retina, brain and fertility

On the spectrum of disorders caused by a defect in one gene
Friedrich Wilhelm Leibniz. Illustration: depositphotos.com

On the infinity of the natural machine

Prof. Ohad Nachumi, Head of the Department of Humanistic Studies and Arts at the Technion, investigates the connection between the old and new world of thought in Leibniz's thought.
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Researchers at the Technion are developing methods for monitoring suicidal tendencies using artificial intelligence

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In recent years, with the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and the proliferation of machine learning models, methods based on computational learning have been developed in suicide research. Because of this, it was decided in the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences at the Technion to hold a Datathon on the subject
From 0 to 100%: the prediction provided by the model for metasynergy between different drugs

Drug combination in the fight against cancer: an innovative approach that combines biology, chemistry and artificial intelligence

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Damage to the motor nerves in Duchenne patients. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Improving the function of the heart muscle in Duchenne patients

Producing heart cells from skin cells made it possible to discover defects that lead to heart failure
DNA based computer. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Prestigious grant for Technion researchers: Towards a complete system for storing DNA information

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The field of DNA-based computing is considered one of the most promising directions in the world of information today, since a single gram of DNA may store enormous information within it, it will be possible to save a lot of energy and store much more volume
Big data handling. Courtesy of Prof. Benny Kimmelfeld, Technion

Clean the reservoirs

Researchers at the Technion have developed algorithms that detect errors in databases
In the photo: Technion President Prof. Uri Sion. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson.

Technion President Prof. Uri Sion was elected for a second term

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The Board of Trustees of the Technion approved the extension of Prof. Sion's term for four more years
A graphic illustration of the properties of the titanium-air battery, in the style of the periodic table of the chemical elements, with the unique electrical and energetic characteristics and properties of the innovative battery. This is how the researchers and developers of the titanium-air battery envision it: removing the oxide protective layer on top of titanium is likened in their eyes to the old Titan, full of tremendous energy but imprisoned in a dark cave for ages. The group of scientists discovered a way to break through the "passive" barrier and release the energy stored in the one-eyed giant - the chemical energy stored in it turns, in the structure of the innovative battery, into electrical energy. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Electricity from the air

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Researchers at the Technion and the Yulich Institute in Germany developed a titanium-air battery and demonstrated its effectiveness experimentally
Kidney cells expressing the isomo protein and in addition a fluorescent protein in the cell nucleus (in purple), adjacent to an egg expressing a fluorescent protein in the cell membrane (green) and staining the genetic material in blue.

Connection exercise - how is an embryo created?

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Technion researchers in collaboration with the University of Tokyo reveal a new role for the IZUMO1 protein in the fusion process between sperm and egg
Antibiotic combinations. Image: depositphotos.com

Antibiotic combinations - are they effective?

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Technion researchers have developed a technology to measure the long-term effect of "combination therapies"
At the beginning of the process, the circular peptides bind to the ubiquitin chain; As a result, the DNA repair mechanism is damaged; And eventually the cancer cells undergo a process of cell death (apoptosis)

Researchers at the Technion discovered unique peptides with anti-cancer potential

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The research was led by researchers from two faculties at the Technion and their colleague from the University of Tokyo
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