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Cells have a sophisticated system to control and dispose of defective, superfluous proteins and thus to prevent damage to the body. Dr. Katrin Bagola and Professor Thomas Sommer of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch as well as Professor Michael Glickman and Professor Aaron Ciechanover of Technion, the Technical University of Israel in Haifa, have now discovered a new function of an enzyme that is involved in this vital process. Using yeast cells as a model...

NEW YORK, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed and successfully demonstrated a photonic Floquet topological insulator, a new device used to protect the transport of light through a unique, lattice of 'waveguides.' The advancement may play a key role in the photonics industry. A description is published in the current issue of NATURE (11 April 2013). The photonics industry is at the heart of modern...

The new collaborative international project, headed by Technion Professor Rachelle Alterman, aims to bridge the legal-institutional gap in Mediterranean coastline management HAIFA, Israel, February 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The European Union (EU) has awarded the international Mare Nostrum [http://marenostrumproject.eu ] consortium EUR4.3 million to explore new ways of preserving the Mediterranean Sea and its coastline. The three-year project is aimed at bridging the...

TEL AVIV, Israel, January 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, one of the world's top institutions of its kind, announced the October 2013 launch of the international 'Start-uP MBA' program (http://www.technionmba.com). The leading Israeli institution will offer a prestigious MBA degree which embodies Israeli entrepreneurship and innovation in the 'start-up nation.' Exemplifying the highest academic standards fused with real-world...

YOKNEAM, Israel, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Syneron Medical Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELOS), the leading global aesthetic device company, announced the death of Marshall D. Butler, member of the Company's Board of Directors since 2003. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120528/535447) Shimon Eckhouse, Ph.D., Founder and Chairman of the Board of Syneron Medical, said, "Syneron, its Board of Directors, executives and employees are greatly saddened by the passing of a great friend,...

YOKNEAM, Israel, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Syneron Medical Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELOS), the leading global aesthetic device company, honored Dr. Shimon Eckhouse, its founder and the inventor of IPL (Intense Pulsed Light), at a gala dinner held during the EADV (European Academy of Dermatology and Venerology) congress in Prague. The event, which was attended by over 100 key opinion leaders and industry professionals, celebrated the 20(th) anniversary of the invention of IPL, a technology...

NEW YORK, June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC has honored Cornell University President David J. Skorton with the global Jewish advocacy organization's prestigious Avraham Harman Leadership Award. Skorton received the award in appreciation of his "inspired leadership in fostering unique U.S.-Israel academic relationships to advance the frontier of human knowledge and understanding." (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) The award was presented this week...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology have developed a “biological computer” made entirely from biomolecules that is capable of deciphering images encrypted on DNA chips. Although DNA has been used for encryption in the past, this is the first experimental demonstration of a molecular cryptosystem of images based on DNA computing. Instead of using traditional computer hardware, a group led by Professor Ehud Keinan...

NEW YORK and HAIFA, ISRAEL, Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Distinguished Professor Dan Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, it was announced today. The Technion is now home to three of the four Israelis in the country's history to be awarded the Nobel Prize in science. Prof. Shechtman, of the Technion Faculty of Materials Engineering, won the award for his discovery of quasicrystals - an entirely new form of matter. The...

A breakthrough about the formation and maintenance of tree-like nerve cell structures could have future applications in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and the repair of injuries in which neurons are damaged. The findings by the international team led by Prof. Benjamin Podbilewicz of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Biology were published in the May 6th issue of Science Express.While biologists have known for years that many neurons form complicated tree-like...