Background Most passion fruit cultivars grown under subtropical climates bear fruit twice a year, in the summer and the winter. Peel color is either purple or yellow with yellow fruit being larger and very sour. Our Innovation We developed an ...

Background The therapeutic activity of most anticancer drugs in clinical use is limited by their general toxicity to proliferating cells, including some normal cells. Although chemists continue to develop novel cytotoxic agents with unique ...

A novel and personalized method for identifying the optimal anti-cancer treatment, through simultaneous detection of unique tumor sensitivities to multiple drugs or drug combinations in a multiplex manner, (this can be done) in vitro on cancer ...

Background Eragrostis tef (tef) is an annual cereal grass that is mainly cultivated for its edible seeds in Ethiopia and Eritrea, where it is the most important staple crop. Additionally, tef is used as nutritious fodder to feed ruminating ...

Background 2,4-D is a herbicide widely used for eradicating broad leaf weeds with a worldwide market value of over $1 billion per year. Despite its success, this herbicide is not used in fields planted with dicots, such as soy, cotton, potatoes ...

  Category Nanotechnology    Keywords Spintronics, Memory, Chiral, Electronics Current development stage General list: TRL4 Technology validated in lab        Application Miniaturization and densification of electronic components to the ...

Background Recurrent miscarriage, preeclampsia and intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) are three common implantation (placental)-related diseases and a major cause of mortality and morbidity for mother and child, complicating between 3 to 10 ...

  Background Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and associated diseases Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), Cirrhosis, and Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cost the US economy an estimated at $103 billion per year. Lipotoxicity is a major ...

Background Experimental archaeology is a field of research that studies ancient cultures by trying to reconstruct ancient lifestyles. Extensive evidence of wine and beer production in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Near East as early as the mid-4th ...

Background PCR using bisulfite-treated DNA as a template, which is  followed by next generation sequencing (NGS), has a major potential as a diagnostic tool, by identifying DNA derived from specific tissue based on cell type-specific methylation ...

Background Nitrogen vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond are a promising implementation for quantum sensors across a variety of use cases. The advantage to read out its spin state optically is a crucial property. Nevertheless, in order to ...

Background        Chicken embryonic fibroblasts (CEFs) are commonly used for the production of vaccines and are a source material for cultured meat. Fibroblasts are contact-dependent limiting their large-scale production to carrier beads capable ...

Categories: Life Science & Biotechnology Technology Keywords: Nasal administration, CNS active oil,  neurodegenerative diseases, CNS Development Stage: Formulation and experiments in animals Patent Status: US  patent application ...

  Highlights: CBD is a highly lipophilic molecule   and therefore the preparation of cannabinoid-containing non- alcoholic beverages requires in general the use of various and important concentrations of additives.  We found a new technology ...

Application The increase in machine size and the decrease in operating voltage causes more hard errors (component failure) and soft errors (bit flip) in high performance computing. Hard-error resiliency solutions such as checkpoint-restart ...

Categories: Life sciences and Biotechnology Technology Keywords: Drug Development, PPARD, Obesity, Glycogen Preserving, Lipid Metabolism, Wound Healing Development Stage: In silico, Identification of lead molecules, in vitro ...

Background Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by the loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). As the disease progresses the number of dopaminergic neurons decreases. ...

Prof. Levy-Lahad Ephrat – Director of the Medical Genetics Institute at Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem Background Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. In >70% of cases with suspected hereditary, no mutations could be found ...

Background Multiple strategies exist for the targeted treatment of different cell pathologies. One ongoing challenge is the introduction of therapeutic molecules into cells. Current approaches rely on viral vectors, electroporation, or carriers. ...

Background Aphasia is an impairment of language, affecting speech and comprehension of speech and the ability to read and write and is the result of damage to the brain, most commonly from stroke (could also occur due to head trauma, brain ...