| CERN 2008 - On site at CERN |
| “ATLAS,” says Technion Prof. Shlomit Tarem, “is the biggest experiment searching for the smallest things.” She is referring to the biggest of the six particle detector experiments constructed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. Read more |
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| Azilect©. The proof is in |
The results of a phase III clinical trial dubbed ADAGIO show that Azilect® 1mg once-daily tablets slow down Parkinson’s disease (PD). Patients who took this dose upon entry into the 18-month trial demonstrated a significant improvement compared to those who only started taking the drug after nine months. Results were presented in August 2008 at the 12th Congress of European Federation of Neurological Societies in Madrid.
The ADAGIO trial, the first of its kind and one of the largest for PD, encompassed 1,176 patients in 14 countries. Based on these latest results, Azilect® could become the first PD treatment to receive a label for disease modification as no other current therapy acts as an agent to slow the disease’s progression.
Technion Profs. Moussa Youdim and John Finberg of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine developed the drug with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. |
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| Einstein in the lab |
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Prof. Albert Einstein‚ Technion founding father‚ predicted that if you make atoms cold enough, they could go into the same state, operating as a wave rather than as individual atoms. This was proven experimentally a decade ago, and the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics was received for this proof. On an upper floor of Technion’s Albert Einstein Institute of Physics, in a perfectly attuned, sophisticated self-built lab, Dr Jeff Steinhauer is exploring the properties of these waves, taking Bose-Einstein Condensation experimentation to another league. Entering the Steinhauer-pioneered atomic physics laboratory is a sensitive procedure: nothing there should be nudged or touched, a nanometer movement of the apparatus could sabotage weeks of experimentation. It is a gasp-worthy place, where atoms are cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero, and are observed to pass through physical barriers as a wave, as if the “wall” were not there. Read more |
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