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An Israeli startup has developed a non-surgical device to help prevent preterm births (PTB) – babies born before completing 37 weeks of gestation. PregnanTech says that 1 in 10 babies are born preterm, which translates to 15 million global births each year. And according to the World Health Organization, complications from preterm birth are the leading cause of death among children under the age of 5 years. The Lioness device developed by PregnanTech is a silicon ring that is placed around the cervix by a physician in what the company says is a quick, non-surgical procedure. According to PregnanTech, the…
“I’m part of the division that protects civilians in Israel and that makes me very proud,” said Technion alumna Maya Shnur. “Every morning when I go to work, I feel like I’m on a mission.” Shnur works at the vaunted Israeli defense company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems as the deputy general manager of Mergers, Acquisitions, […]
This month, 136 new doctors received their medical diplomas from the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion. Twenty-six of them graduated with honors, five with special distinction, and 14 completed the prestigious M.D.–Ph.D. program, which combines medicine and research. Three of the outstanding graduates claim proud family legacies at the Technion and in medicine.
Israel wouldn’t have earned its reputation as the Startup Nation if some of the thousands of companies that have come out of this small country hadn’t earned big bucks for their investors. How big? Jerusalem-based Mobileye holds the title for the most lucrative acquisition of an Israeli company: $15.3 billion – that’s how much Intel paid to acquire the company in 2017. The purchase knocks Jerusalem-based Mobileye off the top spot, after if was bought by Intel for $15.3 billion in 2017. The news about Wiz certainly focused worldwide attention once more on Israel’s lively high-tech sector, which despite experiencing…
Israeli startup aiOla recently won the “Best Speech to Text Solution” award at the 7th annual AI Breakthrough Awards that recognizes the world’s most innovative achievements in the artificial intelligence industry. The Herzliya-based company beat more than 5,000 nominees from over 20 countries to clinch the prestigious prize. Among AI Breakthrough’s previous winners are OpenAI and Deloitte. The company’s voice-capture technology combines natural language processing (NLP), which understands human language as it’s spoken and written, with automatic speech recognition, which uses AI to process human speech into readable text. Thanks to this advanced model, aiOla’s technology can recognize more than…
Israeli public transport app Moovit, which helps travelers navigate local journeys in more than 100 countries, has launched a new platform for longer, intercity trips. The cross-regional planning will allow users to plan journeys across regions of a country, using both public and shared transportation. The app already covers a range of methods of public transport, including buses, trains and even motorized scooters available for hire on the street. The new platform lets travelers plan routes between locations in different regions of a country where Moovit is active, within the same time zone in locations with more than one. Users…
There’s a common situation that occurs during a doctor’s visit. The patient comes in with an ailment, perhaps it’s a cough, a congested chest or ear ache. The doctor raises possibilities of what could be causing the sickness – pneumonia, strep throat, an ear infection and so on. Chests are listened to, ears are examined, noses are swabbed and some tests are sent off to the lab. In the meantime, as the results may take days to come in, the doctor recommends that the patient get started on a round of antibiotics, making an educated guess to diagnose a possible…
Many of us rely on the internet for images we need in our daily work or correspondence. But all too often, the search doesn’t always hit the mark — despite continuous advances in artificial intelligence. For instance, you need a picture of a female CEO but most of the images popping up are of men. You’d like to playfully send your girlfriend a picture of roses in her favorite color, lavender, but you can only find red. Better results could be coming your way, thanks to a team of Technion doctoral students and alumni working with Technion Assistant Professor Yonatan…
“Stay positive,” we’re told when suffering from an illness. It’s easy to dismiss such comments as platitudes from well-meaning friends. But Technion scientists have demonstrated that activation of the brain’s reward system can boost recovery from a heart attack. Establishing the connection between the two can potentially lead to therapeutic avenues for intervention. “It’s time that both researchers and clinicians take the link between psychology and physiology seriously,” said Technion Associate Professor Asya Rolls, a psychoneuroimmunologist and pioneer in mind-body interactions. Scientists have previously shown that the emotional state can influence the course of disease following a heart attack. But…
Sarit Shpits remembers a moment when a colleague, analyzing battlefield video, recognized members of the IDF unit using her company’s equipment. It starkly brought home how her work goes beyond selling cyber-protected communications networks to safeguard drones and other robotics. “It’s much more than business,” said Shpits. “Each piece of equipment leaving here needs to be the best possible because the people using it are our kids, our friends, our husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends.” A Technion graduate of the class of 1997, Shpits joined Australian-U.S.-Israeli-based Mobilicom earlier this year, hoping to contribute more directly to Israel’s security. “October 7 increased my…
In the late 1970s, when no one thought it could be possible, Dov Raviv, a Technion alumnus, had a fantastical idea for a defensive weapon that could intercept and shoot down long-range incoming missiles. The idea developed into what would become the Arrow Antimissile System, the world’s first missile defense platform, and what would protect […]
Karwan Halabi, a 29-year-old from Usfiya, a Druze village in northern Israel, is a biomedical engineer working as a research and development support specialist at Ossio, a medical equipment company. She is also Israel’s champion in various long-distance running events, married, and a participant in the series “Diary of a Sportswoman” (directed by Suha Araf), which focuses on female athletes from the Arab sector. “A few weeks ago, while competing in a 2,000-meter steeplechase in Germany, I collided with a hurdle and fell hard on my head and side. I got up feeling a bit dizzy but continued running and…