In a formal ceremony held at the Stockholm Concert Hall last Thursday, Weizmann Institute of Science Professor Ada Yonath became the first Israeli woman, and the ninth Israeli, to win a Nobel Prize. Yonath was a pioneer in the study of the key protein-producing ribosomes in all cells, and only the fourth woman to become [...]
Filed under: News on December 14th, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
Tagged with: chemistry, innovation, israel, science
With advances in genetic research coming as fast as the papers or blogs can cover them, I’m not surprised to see the breakthrough announced today by researchers in Spain. According to Science Daily, researchers at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have identified certain strains of proteins within a [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on September 18th, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
Tagged with: biotechnology, collaboration, disease, DNA, gene, genetics, human genome, illness, innovation, mutation, research, science, sharing, Spain
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.