The Technion

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
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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
Tel Aviv University's development for the IGEM competition - simulation. Photo: Tel Aviv University spokesperson

Success for the Israeli national teams in the iGEM global competition

The Technion team for the iGEM synthetic biology competition that took place at the end of October in Paris: Technology to stop hair loss caused by chemotherapy * Students from Tel Aviv University won a gold medal for a new development that enables planning
The crystalline transport platform developed by the researchers from the Technion and Johns Hopkins releases an anti-inflammatory drug inside the device and thus supports the survival of the pancreatic islets. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Towards an improved treatment of juvenile diabetes

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American grant to researchers from the Technion and Johns Hopkins University
The new material 595R developed by the Technion researchers (on the left) alongside the stabilizing materials accepted in the industry. It can be seen that only in 595R the homogeneity of the liquid is maintained over time and the drug particles do not sink. Photo: Sharon Tzur, Technion Spokesperson

Robotic chemistry: a significant step on the way to nanoscale medicine

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In the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion, an automatic system was developed to create a "nanometric package" for sending drugs to cancer centers in the body
Assembling an engine at a car show in China. Image: depositphotos.com

Quiet engines

Researchers have built a mathematical model for building thermophones, which may eliminate the noise caused by the engines of cars, airplanes, and more
Illustration - Renewed Hope: Dealing with the problem of flooding in an old urban fabric, a moral paradise, within the framework of the Climate Crisis and Environment Studio _ LandBasics Local Landscapes under the guidance of: Matanya Zak, Aliza Broida, Isabella Levy. Final project in landscape architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning - Technion

The architects of change

A green city? This is not a paradox. An optimistic look at a differently designed future, through the final projects of the landscape architecture course at the Technion, which dealt with creative solutions for a more sustainable planning of the Israeli space
Scientific diagram: The journal Optica presents a new way to design an optical system to obtain the desired photonic entanglement - a collaboration between researchers from the Technion and Tel Aviv University. (credit SimplySci Animations)

A new way to create entangled photons

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Researchers from the Technion and Tel Aviv University have developed an innovative method to engineer quantum entanglement in a crystal, using computational learning tools

Anti-cancer wall

A small molecule that inhibits the spread of cancer metastases - an original development by researchers at the Technion, the Netherlands and the UK
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A fast, accurate and cost-effective method for detecting cancer-causing mutations

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The new technology we developed provides accurate data on the nature of the mutation based on the RNA sequencing of the tumor only - that is, without the need for DNA sequencing of the tumor and any sequencing of the healthy tissue
Silicon battery. Illustration courtesy of the Technion Spokesperson

Environmentally friendly rechargeable silicon batteries will be able to solve the problem of energy storage

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A research group from the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering at the Technion, which developed the first silicon-air batteries, reports success in developing rechargeable silicon batteries
Prof. Ado Kaminer. Photograph of the Technion barges

A researcher at the Technion won an award on behalf of the Schmidt Foundation (founded by one of the founders of Google) in the amount of 2.5 million

According to the foundation's statement, "Prof. Kaminer will develop algorithms that mimic human creativity. Inspired by his experience as an experimental physicist, a field where surprising results drive discoveries and stimulate creativity"
A robotic hand with four fingers and a single motor, holding a box of crackers. With the help of the environment, it is possible to change the shape of the hand before the grip to bring about a secure grip adapted to the object being grasped. Courtesy of the researcher

How many fingers should a robot have on its hand?

Minimalist robotic grips - design, algorithms, and control of grip systems
Dr. Albert Borla speaks at the graduate ceremony upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the Technion, 30/6/2022. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson

The Technion awarded an honorary doctorate to Pfizer Chairman and CEO Dr. Albert Burla

The reason for the award - "an extraordinary biotechnological achievement that testifies to the importance of science" * At the same time, Borla won the Genesis Prize worth one million dollars which is an advantage for the establishment of a museum for the heritage of the Jews of Thessaloniki in the city * including
The MRI device is installed in a lab at the Technion, 2022. Photo: Ya'akov Shloush, Technion Spokesperson

The Technion is establishing the first research MRI center of its kind in the north of the country

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The silicone sheet as it appears before it is wrapped around the heart or nerve tissue. The colors you see are due to the porosity of the surface - nanoholes that refract and absorb the different wavelengths of light in an inhomogeneous manner, which causes the different colors of the rainbow to appear. Photo: Dr. Hami Rotenberg's laboratory courtesy of the Technion spokesperson

A therapeutic window to the nervous system

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A new material developed by researchers at the Technion and the University of Chicago is expected to optimize medical treatments and accelerate the use of renewable energies
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To see the light, to think about tomorrow

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A smart device, based on a single atomic layer, which sorts and controls the spin of photons, may lead to the development of next-generation computers
An illustration describing the way the nanoparticle is formed in the protein medium and its activation by induced light in favor of the activity of the enzymes NADPH reductase (FNR) and imine reductase which leads to the creation of chiral cyclic imines. Illustration: Neta Kosher, Technion Spokesperson

A new platform for the engineering of a "bug in June"

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The researchers use the unique properties of nanoscale particles on the one hand, and the tremendous selectivity of biological systems on the other, to create biosystems that carry out vital processes
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Artificial intelligence in the service of cancer medicine

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A technology based on artificial intelligence may quickly and simply decode genetic and molecular information about cancer tumors. On the horizon: personalized medicine for cancer patients
A conceptual illustration of the chess battle between the cancer cells and the anti-cancer drugs. Most cancer deaths are related to the development of drug resistance and the formation of metastases. In both processes, the cancer cells face difficult and new challenges and a strain: finding a bypass for the drug, or a way to adapt to a foreign and hostile tissue. Unfortunately, the cells often manage to overcome these challenges. How does this happen? This is a complex process, and among other things, the cells go through a process of learning, which involves trial and error, while searching among a large number of configurations and internal states. The theory of learning theory constitutes a mental and mathematical framework for understanding these processes. A review of the current literature shows that basic concepts of learning theory provide an explanation for results that do not correspond to the popular concept. Linking the search process to a concrete mathematical model demonstrates its feasibility. (Illustration: Harel Spring)

Lethal learning: a new interpretation of adaptive mechanisms of cancer cells

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The Nano Bible built at the Technion. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson

Eitan Stiva will take with him the Nano Bible developed and created at the Technion and presented to the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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Autonomous luxury car. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Why are autonomous cars afraid of plastic bags?

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The different stages of clinical trials in a vaccine (or drug). Illustration: depositphotos.com

Researchers from the Technion have developed a technology that corrects the underrepresentation of women in clinical studies

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The existing under-representation of women in clinical studies creates a problematic bias that harms the quality of treatment for women, in the early diagnosis of diseases, in the allocation of drugs that cause side effects among women, and more
Quantum marbles in action - an artistic illustration of a material wave rolling down a steep slope. Credit: Enrique Sahagún, Scixel. Courtesy of the Technion spokesperson

Quantum computers also have a maximum speed

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Scientists at the Technion and the University of Bonn present the factors that dictate the maximum speed of quantum computations. This is through an experiment that uses quantum "matter waves".
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Are you a riser or a night animal?

In both cases, it may be related to your gut bacteria. This is according to a joint study by scientists at the University of Haifa and the Technion, who also present hope for change for people who suffer from their sleeping pattern
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Medical technology developed at the Technion improves the effect of anti-cancer drugs

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The technology, based on the Nano-Ghosts platform, makes it possible to reduce the dose of the drug a million times without harming its effectiveness
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