Virus catchers

Israeli Vecoy Nanomedicines has developed a system to prevent viruses from entering cells. The system will be presented, among other things, at the Singularity Conference as part of the TLV Icon Festival in Hamada. free admission

Viruses are one of the biggest problems in medicine since there are almost no cures for viruses and only a very small part have vaccines.

Erez Livna (35), the founder and CEO of Vecoy Nanomedicines Ltd., has developed a new and unique therapeutic technology aimed at developing a new treatment for AIDS and other viral diseases, using an innovative approach - never seen before - virus traps. The new technological venture is based on nanotechnological trap bodies that impersonate human cells, lure the viruses into them and then neutralize them before they reach the human cells.

The Israeli company has applied for a patent and it is a medical scientific breakthrough with the potential to save the lives of millions of patients throughout the Western and developing world. Livna presented for the first time the anti-viral technology he developed at the prestigious Singularity University program held at the NASA base in Silicon Valley in California, which aims to promote breakthroughs and new industries for the benefit of humanity.

The issue of fighting viruses using nanotechnology will be presented, among other things, at a non-conference that will deal with the technological singularity at the Hamada Center in Tel Aviv.

On Tuesday 2/10, Icon TLV, the International Festival of Science Fiction, Imagination and the Future
In collaboration with Hamada - the Center for Scientific Education of Tel Aviv, they will hold a non-conference on the topic of the technological singularity. This is the second year that the conference is being held, and as part of it, entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, writers and creators will meet to discuss technologies that until recently were only fictional dreams and to prepare for how they are going to change the world.

"Israel is a central junction in the global technological and scientific road map, a leader in academic research, engineering innovation and technological entrepreneurship, and therefore it is very important to hold an in-depth and enriching discussion on the subject, in which we will touch on technology as well as its social and cultural meanings", explains Uri Aviv, TLV icon director.

The technological singularity is a term in future research for the point in time in the future when computers will achieve intellectual abilities higher than those of humans - when software will be able to write software. This achievement will lead to a development that will radically change us and the world.

Since the boundary line between man and machine, between brain and computer, is blurring every day, dealing with the technological singularity today means dealing with a long line of sciences and technologies, including neuroscience, genetics and synthetic biology, materials engineering, nano-technologies, XNUMXD printers, space exploration and even For the field of gaming, they will all have far-reaching consequences for us and our world, and very soon.

Along with the films of the film festival, in all the evenings of the TLV icon review there will be a cyber session and a singularity session: the future of death - about the end of death and the future of life, out of nowhere - about robotics, synthetic biology and XNUMXD printing, a conversation with the modern Prometheus, education for an unknown future - education In the mirror of the singularity, the cybernetic book - about the areas of the digital book and people and computers - the enigma of Alan Turing.

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