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Potato battery could help meet rural energy needs
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Teo Sanchez, energy technology and policy advisor at Practical Action, a charity which promotes technology for development, said: "With half the world's population having no access to modern energy, this research is a valuable contribution to one of the biggest challenges in the world". |
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Yissum Introduces a Breakthrough Computational Method for Superfast Drug Discovery
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Yissum introduces Dralgo, a novel computational platform for accelerated discovery of promising drug candidates. The new technology will be presented by its inventor, Professor Amiram Goldblum from the Institute of Drug Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on Tuesday, June 15 at the Technology Transfer Session II of the ILSI Biomed Israel 2010 conference, to be held at the David Intercontinental Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Computer Algorithm Can Recognize Sarcasm
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The pursuit of machine intelligence means we have to come up with ways to communicate with our computers in a way both entities can understand. But while computers process verbal commands in a straightforward fashion, humans tend to use more sophisticated speech forms, employing slang or symbols to convey an idea. So an Israeli research team has developed a machine algorithm that can recognize sarcasm. |
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‘Superdominant’ mutant tomato gene could spark revolution
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A single gene discovered by Hebrew University and US researchers Prof. Dani Zamir, Dr. Uri Krieger and Dr. Zach Lippman promises to produce tomatoes – one of Israelis’ favorite vegetables – in dramatically higher yields and with better taste. The discovery was patented by Yissum, HU’s technology transfer arm, which is seeking partners for further development and commercialization. |
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Prof. Daniel Mandler, an Argentinean chemist living in Israel since 1963, spent a month working in Buenos Aires [Spanish]
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In an interview to “La Nacion”, one of the most important daily newspapers of Latin America, said Prof. Mandler: “I think that if we can convince our respective Ministers of Science to establish an institutional partnership between Argentina and Israel, both countries could benefit.
For Mandler and his host, Dr. Ernesto Calvo, Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of Materials, Environment and Energy (Inquimae), a collaboration of this type could help join forces in the increasingly competitive arena of world science.
Among his various researchs, Mandler developed a way to deposit thin layers of silicon hydroxide: "He invented a very practical way to coat stents [devices to shore up the wall arteries] explains Dr. Calvo. And we realized that we have a method to see in real time how this deposition occurs. We were not planning to make any experiment this month, but we tested it and now we have results which we could publish in a major international magazine. None of us could have done this work separately."
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Yissum, Makhteshim to develop environment-friendly crop protection
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Yissum and Makhteshim will work together on two projects. The first collaboration is for the development of a novel method for producing slow and controlled release of herbicides. The second collaboration involves a novel insecticidal preparation combining a proprietary Chitin synthesis inhibitor (CSI) and a pathogenic fungus that kills caterpillars of night-flying moths, which are major pests for agriculture worldwide. |
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