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A study recently published in the journal Nanophotonics reveals that by rapidly modulating the refractive index – which is the ratio of the speed of electromagnetic radiation in a medium compared to its speed in a vacuum – it’s possible to produce photonic time crystals (PTCs) in the near-visible part of the spectrum. The study’s authors suggest that the ability to sustain PTCs in the optical domain could have profound implications for the science of light, enabling truly disruptive applications in the future. A PTC is only stable if the refractive index can be made to rise and fall in line with…
Researchers have developed a pioneering AI “matchmaker” that pairs together existing cancer drugs for use in nanomedicine. Prescribing a combination of two or more medications is already an established practice – known as combination therapy — that can prove highly effective. But a team at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, has gone beyond simply identifying separate medications that will work well together.
Microscopes have long been invaluable tools for biologists but getting a clear look at the smallest sub-cellular structures has always been tricky. In recent years, scientists developed a method to obtain a single super-resolved image of the sub-cellular structure by capturing a video instead of a single shot. This comes with a price of longer […]
A delegation of presidents and chancellors from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the United States visited Israel recently to assess potential partnerships with the Technion and other Israeli institutions of higher learning. The visit focused on areas of study and research that align with their missions, including technology and STEM disciplines. Memoranda of understanding were signed to facilitate study-abroad programs for their students at the Technion. Additionally, faculty members will engage in joint research projects and knowledge exchange with Technion professors and researchers. The delegation was also interested to learn more about the Technion’s renowned technology transfer…
Professor Israel Cidon, a renowned leader in network engineering and former Technion – Israel Institute of Technology faculty member and dean, recently began his tenure as the director of the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. Prof. Cidon succeeds Dr. Ron Brachman, who has held the role since 2016 and will transition out over the next few months. “Professor Israel Cidon is an esteemed computer networking researcher with extensive management experience at the Technion,” said Technion President Professor Uri Sivan. “As dean, he led the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering to significant achievements. Professor Cidon…
The wildfires in Maui may finally be fully contained, but the environmental impact left in the wake of the the infernos will last for years to come, experts told ABC News. As the Maui community begins to heal from the wildfires that killed more than 100 people and incinerated a large portion of the island, residents will now start to grapple with the painstaking cleanup and rebuilding phase, an emotional process that could also contain health risks, the experts said. The cleanup process will need to be done “very carefully,” due to the hazards, Kristina Dahl, senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists,…
A new approach that integrates a minimally invasive, painless microneedle platform may help monitor protein biomarkers in responses to a combination immunotherapy against melanoma. The platform is capable of absorbing the cell-surrounding, biomarker-containing fluid from deeper layers of the skin with an ultra-sensitive, single-molecule detection method (Simoa) that detects often rare, yet relevant biomarkers with higher sensitivity than conventional methods. The researchers provided proof-of-concept for their approach in a mouse melanoma model in which they treated cancerous lesions with a novel therapy. The therapy acts locally on tumor lesions in that it combines non-invasive focused ultrasound (FUS), which generates heat…
Private space companies like Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. and Blue Origin could provide a significant booHow Pst to the speed and frequency of space research projects, according to Moran Bercovici, a mechanical engineering professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Bercovici is involved in the Fluidic Telescope Experiment (FLUTE) with NASA, which aims to revolutionize space astronomy. He feels that private space companies have a great deal to offer scientific research. “They make space more accessible to research teams around the world,” he told MarketWatch. “In the future, the private companies have all the incentives to streamline this…
Many medical studies record a patient’s race using only the broad categories from the U.S. Census, which may conceal racial health disparities, a new study reports. Researchers evaluated the performance of clinical risk scores for people of different races in an emergency department (ED). A clinical risk score summarizes the severity of a patient’s symptoms into a single number – the higher the score, the greater the risk of severe health outcomes. The researchers looked at broad race categories, like “Asian,” and more specific subgroups, like “Chinese” and “Indian.” The risk scores performed much better for some subgroups than others,…
As a boy of just 12, Technion Neubauer Assistant Professor Shady Farah gave his grandmother daily insulin injections. “It was tough,” he recalled. “You love her and care about her, and it causes pain.” She would often tell him, “‘Shady, maybe one day you can help find a cure for this.’” Prof. Farah took her words to heart. Securing a $700,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), he and Assistant Professor Joshua Doloff of Johns Hopkins University are advancing an efficient, pain-free solution for people suffering from type 1, or “juvenile” diabetes, a chronic condition in which the…
When asked what collaborative success between the Technion and the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute in New York City might look like five years from now, Technion Professor Ariel Orda said, “I’d love for every Technion student and faculty to see the Jacobs Institute and the Cornell Tech campus as a home away from home. And the same goes for those in the other direction.” On a mission to enhance collaboration between the Technion and the Jacobs Institute at the Cornell Tech campus, seven Technion deans visited Roosevelt Island in May 2023. The NYC campus “creates a natural bridge…
Imagine this: One day you wake up to find the steering wheel that had been on one car in your garage is now on your other car, and the parking brakes are also interchanged. According to research conducted by Professor Noam Ziv, something very similar is happening in our brains, because the parts that make up our synapses are constantly moving. This brain research, which could have implications for memory loss and aging, is just one of the many exciting projects underway in the new Technion Human Health Initiative (THHI), headed by Prof. Ziv. As the global population skews older,…