Isaiah (Shy) Arkin is a professor of Structural Biochemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, whose research, among other achievements, has shed new light on the inner workings of viruses. The Times of Israel spoke to him to try to understand more about the coronavirus, how it compares to other viruses, how its spread might stop or be stopped, and how worried humankind should be about it.
Researchers from the Hebrew University, the Weizmann institute of Science and the Israel Health Ministry have developed a method to help identify, monitor and possibly predict future coronavirus outbreak zones.
Jerusalem-based Pepticom Ltd. has raised $5 million in a series A funding round.
Founded in 2013, Pepticom uses artificial intelligence algorithms to design peptide drug candidates based on the known structure of the required target proteins. Pepticom intends to use the investment to develop new artificial intelligence-based models of peptides.
The Jerusalem Development Authority and Yissum hosted a night of netowrking, delicious food, craft beer, live music and informal pitches from top reseachers and entrepreneurs developing game changing new food technologies.
Featured commercially for the first time was beer brewed from 5,000 year old yeast!
