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ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Israeli researchers discover defective liver gene. Doctors at Schneider Children’s medical centre noticed 10 children and infants from four families in a single Arab village, all with liver abnormalities. The discovery of the mutant gene could lead to a treatment for fatty liver disease and screening for the gene.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=283610
FDA approves Israeli neutropenia treatment. Cancer patients receiving chemotherapy are at risk of infection due to reduced white blood cell counts. Teva’s Tbo-filgrastim stimulates the bone marrow to produce white bloods cells. The US Food and Drug Administration has given the go-ahead for commercial production.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000780995&fid=1725
10 Israeli treatments for Alzheimer’s. (Thanks to Israel21c) To mark World Alzheimer’s Month, here is a great summary of all the main brain science, medication and memory enhancement innovations that Israeli scientists have contributed to fighting this devastating and fatal condition.
http://israel21c.org/health/top-10-israeli-advances-against-alzheimers-disease/
Key to brain disease is in the bones. Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have discovered how the brain controls bone development. With previous research on protein interleukin-1 it explains why depression, Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy often accompany osteoporosis and has huge potential for new therapies.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=283732
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
Israel trains young Japanese leaders. (Thanks to Israel21c) IsraAID, the Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid, has been training Japanese students from the Tohoku earthquake region. The leadership program empowers youth from Tohoku to take responsibility for their future as individuals and as a community.
http://israel21c.org/news/israaid-grooms-youth-leadership-in-japans-earthquake-region/
Israeli bank donates backpacks to Ethiopian kids. The Tel Aviv branch of Citibank made the first day of school much easier for Ethiopian-Israeli students, by donating 200 backpacks and school supplies. They were distributed to the students by the organisation Ethiopian National Project (ENP).
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/159392
Cleaning up Lake Victoria. Following on from the project initiated in April 2011, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon signed a cooperation agreement with Kenya and Germany to promote fish farming techniques and desalinate and purify the waters of Lake Victoria.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4269836,00.html
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
No need to look up. Smart keyboard company KeyView has unveiled Smartype – a new kind of keyboard with a sophisticated built-in display. Users no longer need to split their focus between a keyboard and computer screen, helping minimize typing errors, reducing neck strain and maximize productivity.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000780602&fid=1725
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWOOeYqbD1o
Turning pollution into bio-fuel. Excellent article explaining how Israel’s Seambiotic takes the Carbon Dioxide (greenhouse gas) directly from smokestacks and uses it to feed algae for bio-fuel projects in Ohio and Italy and for the vitamin industry in China. It’s still early days, but shows much promise.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/InnovativeIsrael/Algae-products-23-Aug-2012.htm#.UDndAVa2dvc.facebook
Robot teacher. Watch this film clip of RoboThespian teaching a class of Israeli children how to work with weights and levers. Plus some Shakespeare verse and a song. Lessons were never like this in my time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEPQtuF3DI&feature=youtu.be
Happy New Year. Israel’s Technion has put together this short film of its robots and staff wishing everyone a very hi-tech and happy 5773.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R9a1SRbe9k&feature=youtu.be
Transforming the future. Israel’s PrimeSense provides the 3D sensing technology for Microsoft’s Kinect for XBox 360. PrimeSense has been selected as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and one of the world’s most innovative technology start-ups that can transform the future of business and society.
http://www.embassyofisrael.co.uk/commercial/2012/08/28/primesense-recognised-as-technology-pioneer-by-world-economic-forum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=primesense-recognised-as-technology-pioneer-by-world-economic-forum