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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 586

Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Facebook's Meta logo sign is seen at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, California, October 28, 2021. (AP/Tony Avelar)
October 26, 2022, 10:23 am
Hebrew U to open joint PhD program, research partnership with Meta AI
Doctoral program to provide students with mentors from the Facebook parent company, access to facilities and computational infrastructure
By ToI Staff
A view of Earth from the ISS. (Elen11 via iStock by Getty Images)
March 8, 2022, 6:52 pm
Israel’s first ‘space medicine’ university course gets underway in Jerusalem
Professor Sara Eyal, clinical pharmacist who studies effects of microgravity on human biology, leads first-of-its-kind lecture series
By Ricky Ben-David
Tasting the biblical-style beer produced from ancient yeast strains dormant for thousands of years. (Yaniv Berman/ Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)
May 22, 2019, 2:11 pm
Israeli scientists brew groundbreaking ‘ancient beer’ from 5,000-year-old yeast
Using pottery sherds from four Holy Land sites, interdisciplinary team isolates and revitalizes six strains of ancient yeast to create alcoholic beverages of yore
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Students seen during a break at the Rehovot Campus of Hebrew University, on January 22, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 24, 2019, 12:41 pm
Hebrew University eyes foreign markets to help commercialize technologies
Yissum, the tech transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, sets up centers in the US, Paraguay and China to ease process of bringing tech to industry
By Shoshanna Solomon
This September 2017 photo shows ribeye steaks with thyme-garlic butter in New York (Sarah Crowder via AP)
November 24, 2018, 8:56 pm
3D-printed vegan steak and fries? Israeli startup says it has replicated meat
Jet Eat claims to have duplicated the texture of meat using plant-based formulations; hopes product will hit the markets by 2020
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image of the destruction of a leukemia cell (Dr_Microbe, iStock by Getty Images)
August 27, 2018, 1:15 pm
New drug brings hope in acute leukemia battle, Hebrew U researchers say
Tests show 50% cure rate in lab mice; single molecule targets many leukemia proteins, and activates a tumor suppressor gene; clinical trials hoped to start in US in 2019
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative: Cancer cells. (Pixabay)
June 12, 2018, 11:15 am
Hebrew University researchers team up with US firm to fight cancer
GRAIL, based in Menlo Park, California, aims to detect cancer early, using data science and machine learning to study cancer DNA
By Shoshanna Solomon
An illustrative vegan burger (Courtesy Buddha Burgers)
October 24, 2017, 4:57 pm
Printer, can you please make me a low-fat burger with fries?
Two Hebrew University researchers say they will soon be able to produce meals using nano-cellulose and 3D printers; they’ve already made dough
By ToI Staff
A haploid cell on the left, with 23 chromosomes; a diploid cell on the right, with 46 chromosomes (Courtesy)
May 25, 2017, 5:08 pm
Israeli startup finds way to predict tumor resistance to chemo
NewStem use haploid cells in developing diagnostic kit to help doctors avoid ineffective therapies
By Shoshanna Solomon
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