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Researchers in the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion have developed “bionic bacteria.” The innovative technology has many potential applications in industry, the environment, and precise medicine. For example, bionic bacteria could be used to sense hazardous substances, or aid in the targeted release of drugs in the body. The study was led by Assistant Professor Omer Yehezkeli and Ph.D. student Oren Bachar, and co-authored by doctoral student Matan Meirovich and master’s student Yara Zeibaq. “My research group deals with the interface between engineering and biotechnology at the nanoscale level,” explained Prof. Yehezkeli. “Our goal is to…
Pictured Above / L to R: Ph.D. student Iris Ianovici and Prof. Shulamit Levenberg. Researchers at the Technion have successfully created edible muscle fibers by bioprinting a plant-based scaffold and living animal cells. The development of cultivated meat — meat that does not involve the raising and slaughtering of animals — is a potential solution for the growing need for meat products following population growth, the environmental damage caused by breeding cattle, and the increasing awareness of animal welfare. To fulfill the promise of cultivated meat to meet various consumer expectations, there is a need for technologies that allow for…
Pictured Above / Professor Assaf Schuster The Technion recently hosted “Artificial Intelligence (AI): From Hype to Productivity,” a conference that included leading figures from the Technion, local AI industry, and the governmental sector. The conference was created by the Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems Center (MLIS), the Technion Center for Computer Engineering (TCE), and the Technion Data Science Institute (TDSI), and led by Professors Assaf Schuster and Shie Mannor, who co-lead MLIS at the Technion. Professor Lihi Manor-Zelnik of the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering moderated the event. The Technion’s President, Professor Uri Sivan, said…
When astronaut Eytan Stibbe takes off into space at the end of March, he will take with him a copy of the Nano Bible, developed at the Technion. This unique technological item was lent to him by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where it is currently on display in the Shrine of the Book alongside the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Nano Bible is the most innovative and smallest copy of the Bible that exists. Technion scientists engraved the 1.2 million letters of the Bible on a gold-plated layer of silicon (on a surface the size of a grain of sugar)…
Antibiotics are a double-edged sword: on the one hand, antibiotics are essential to curing bacterial infections. On the other hand, their use promotes proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Using genomic sequencing techniques and machine learning analysis of patient records, researchers from the Technion – Israel institute of Technology and Maccabi KSM Research and Innovation Center have developed an antibiotic-prescribing algorithm that cuts the risk of emergence of antibiotic resistance by half. The paper, published in Science, is a collaboration between the research group of Professor Roy Kishony from the Technion Faculty of Biology and the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of…
Technion’s Ingenious Approach to Sustainable Food Tech Featuring Professors Marcelle Machluf, Ester Segal,and Uri Lesmes The world’s food system is reaching a crisis point: waste, overfishing, deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions from farming, and more are destroying the planet. As the global population keeps growing, food security is fast becoming one of the major challenges facing […]
Pictured Above / (Left to right): Hadas Weizman, Sana Gur-Gelbard, Shani Zigman, Orit Zigman, Mor Heinrich, Marina Gabinski Six-year-old Shani has always yearned to draw, but her cerebral palsy has prevented her from lifting her hands independently for tabletop activities. In a heartwarming and inspiring turn of events, four students from the Technion’s Master’s of Industrial Design program teamed up with Shani’s mother to find a solution. They created an award-winning device that enables Shani to draw and eat independently for the first time in her life. “The importance of the device to Shani and the change it has made…
Pictured Above / ( L-R): Professor Yehonadav Bekenstein, Sasha Khalfin, and Noam Veber (Credit : Rami Shelush) What if damaged solar panels or even the cracked screen of your cell phone could heal themselves overnight? Technion scientists have developed self-repairing nanocrystals that might make that scenario a reality. Led by Assistant Professor Yehonadav Bekenstein of the Faculty of Material Sciences and Engineering, the researchers happily stumbled upon the discovery while searching for an environmentally friendly alternative to toxic lead-based perovskites, materials that are commonly used in solar panels. The scientists were using a transmission electron microscope (TEM) to take videos…
Pictured Above / Technion researchers have developed a new method that harvests an electrical current directly from seaweed in an environmentally friendly and efficient fashion. Technion Ph.D. candidate Yaniv Shlosberg was walking on the beach one day when he noticed a rock covered by seaweed that looked like electrical cords. He had been researching a type of bacteria that obtained energy through photosynthesis and thought that maybe this sun-loving seaweed could also produce electrical currents. Using that common seaweed, called Ulva, as a source of energy, Shlosberg and a team of researchers from the Technion and the Israel Oceanographic and…
Technion researchers have developed a way to make optical lenses in a cost-effective way. It’s an innovation that could be a gamechanger for 2.5 billion people. It could transform space research. And it all started with a whiteboard and a marker. Although eyeglasses are cheap to make, in many parts of the world, they’re hard to come by. Yet without glasses, children find themselves struggling to follow along in the classroom. Adults lose their jobs because their vision has deteriorated so badly. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering members Professor Moran Bercovici and Dr. Valeri Frumkin became obsessed with this problem. How…
As an ever-increasing number of satellites circle the earth, providing information and services we could not have accessed otherwise. Technion researchers are creating breakthrough experiments to take human knowledge and capability farther than ever before into space. This video premiered during the December 2021 Technion Board of Governors meeting.