Digitisation of the sense of smell

EU-funded research project to detect pathologically altered body odours

26-Apr-2022 - The project "Smart Electronic Olfaction for Body Odour Diagnostics" - SMELLODI for short - which is funded by the European Union (EU) with almost 3 million euros, has just started. Over the next three years, the participating partner institutes from Germany, Israel and Finland and Dresden-based ...

Can chips replace animal testing?

Hebrew University and startup develop bionic chips to create cancer-fighting drugs without need for animal testing

16-Mar-2021 - A team of researchers led by Professor Yaakov Nahmias, director of the Grass Center for Bioengineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founder of Tissue Dynamic, introduced a new technological approach that has the potential to rapidly develop new drugs without the need for animal ...

Scientists develop printable water sensor

X-ray investigation reveals functioning of highly versatile copper-based compound

05-Mar-2019 - A new, versatile plastic-composite sensor can detect tiny amounts of water. The 3d printable material, developed by a Spanish-Israeli team of scientists, is cheap, flexible and non-toxic and changes its colour from purple to blue in wet conditions. The researchers lead by Pilar Amo-Ochoa from the ...

Scientists find new metabolic pathways to resist viruses

14-Oct-2016 - Viral infection is one of the leading medical challenges of the 21st Century, ranging from the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) epidemic affecting 3% of the global population, to recent outbreaks of West Nile, Zika, and Ebola viruses. Viruses are parasites that lack the basic metabolic machinery needed to ...