FEBRUARY 2011 Global Students @ Better Place International students go from “Pump to Plug” on green field trip to electric vehicle hub masterminded by Technion... Fire on the Mountain Technion Prof. Yohay Carmel says all is not lost for evergreen forest... The War of the Languages A fascinating historical exhibition on the founding of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the ensuing... News Space Research Alumni Carmel Forest History News Flash The Thomas A. Edison Patent Award to Prof. Moshe Shoham 13/05/2013, Read more 2 New Film Clips Demonstrating Aumni Achievements 01/05/2013, Read more Sea Squirt Solves Crystal Conundrum 28/04/2013, Read more Guardians Irwin and Joan Jacobs make $133 m. foundational gift to Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute 23/04/2013, Read more Harvey Prize Laureates to Lecture at Technion 22/04/2013, Read more In Nature: 1st photonic topological insulators to provide protection for transport of light 11/04/2013, Read more Wednesdays at One: Frontiers in Medical Research Lecture Series, Amado 04/04/2013, Read more Technion Commemorates Jewish-Italian Matehematicians 09/04/2013, Read more Baroness Thatcher (1925-2013) Recognized by Technion 09/04/2013, Read more Technion Ranked World 6th for Entrepreneurship and Innovation 08/04/2013, Read more View news archive Stem Cells with a Heart A Technion study published in Nature in January 2011 shows the ability of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs ) to recreate - in a Petri dish - a cardiac disorder known as long QT syndrome, enabling researchers to model the abnormal cardiac function and to identify potential new therapeutic agents. Read more Diagnosing Cancer “Just one test-tube of blood provides us with enough data to determine what kind of disease a patient might have,” says Technion’s Prof. Arie Admon. He led a team of scientists from Technion’s faculties of biology and medicine and IBM’s Haifa Research Laboratory whose report on a new source of blood-derived biomarkers was published in October 2010 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Read more Walk Tall Over 13 million North Americans watched the Christmas episode of the popular Fox TV series Glee, when paraplegic student Artie stands up and walks with the help of an exoskeleton device he is wearing. Artie explains, “It’s called the ReWalk™, some guy in Israel invented it!” Read more © 2011 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Division of Public Affairs and Resource Development All rights reserved. If you wish to use any text or graphics contained herein, please contact focus@tx.technion.ac.il