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A slice of pizza. Beta-casein, successfully engineered into a plant at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, is one of the milk proteins responsible for making cheese melts. (Proformabooks, iStock by Getty Images)
August 16, 2026, 2:56 am
Milk from seeds: Israeli scientists produce key dairy protein from safflower plant
Hebrew University researchers say beta-casein, which helps cheese melt, can be found in ‘cream’ pressed from seeds, eradicating need for cows, and slashing costs and livestock emissions
By Sue Surkes
Klil Halevi (far left) poses with other researchers from the laboratory of Prof. Ron Milo (center, in blue top) located at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. (Courtesy)
July 16, 2026, 2:45 pm
‘It’s like magic’: In world first, Weizmann scientists on path to create food from air
Researchers engineer bacteria that grow fast on diet of CO₂ with eventual aim of developing microbial food products for humans and animals
By Sue Surkes
Leaves of a control potato plant (L) and a genetically engineered one. (Courtesy, Shilo Rosenwasser)
May 27, 2021, 3:11 pm
Potatoes that glow when stressed: Scientists tap into tubers in trouble
Hebrew University researchers implant gene with fluorescent protein that changes color according to levels of stress indicated by quantity of potentially harmful free radicals
By Sue Surkes
Photo of Dani Offen, professor at the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University and co-founder and chief scientific officer of eggXYt,in lab testing a male egg prior to hatching (Courtesy)
February 11, 2018, 1:31 pm
Now you can count your chickens before they hatch, instead of culling them
Israeli startup says it can save seven billion male chicks from sure death by detecting their gender while they’re still eggs
By Urvashi Verma
A chili pepper field in India where NRGene has been developing breeds of chili peppers that farmers can plant in drip irrigation-watered fields. NRGene mapped the chili pepper genome last year (Courtesy)
April 10, 2016, 5:28 pm
Israeli firm makes the move to plant engineering mecca St. Louis
Genome manipulation is becoming a major Israeli export, despite the reservations of some
By David Shamah
Genome Compiler's mix n' match genetic material assembly interface (Courtesy)
April 6, 2016, 7:03 pm
Israeli start-up joins world’s first ‘mail order gene store’
US-based Twist Bioscience acquires Genome Compiler, paving the way for ‘gene hackers’ to mix and match DNA of small organisms to boost scientific innovation
By David Shamah
The Technion's winning iGEM team (Facebook)
November 24, 2015, 7:32 am
Can these Technion students cure baldness?
University team aces international competition with an enzyme that promises to stop male pattern alopecia
By Simona Weinglass
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