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Prof. Yosef Yarden and Dr. Hyman Muss Honored by Susan G. Komen for the Cure® for Discoveries that Unraveled the Biology of Breast Cancer and Work to Improve TreatmentsAn Israeli researcher and an American clinician-scientist whose work has led to more personalized treatments for breast cancer are being honored as this year's winners of the prestigious Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Brinker Awards for Scientific Distinction in Basic Science and Clinical Research, the highest awards of merit given by the world's leading breast cancer organization.
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Solar technology to convert greenhouse gas into fuel
The possibility of converting CO2 to fuel in a clean and efficient manner will turn brown coal into a source of environmentally friendly fuel.
An Israeli-Australian venture will use solar technology developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of brown coal. The venture has been recently launched in Israel by NewCO2Fuels Ltd., a subsidiary of the Australian company Greenearth Energy Ltd., which has acquired an exclusive worldwide license for the solar technology from Yeda, the Weizmann Institute's technology transfer arm.
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New Weizmann Institute technology speeds up DNA “rewriting” and measures the effects of the changes in living cells
Our ability to “read” DNA has made tremendous progress in the past few decades, but the ability to understand and alter the genetic code, that is, to “rewrite” the DNA-encoded instructions, has lagged behind. A new Weizmann Institute study advances our understanding of the genetic code: It proposes a way of effectively introducing numerous carefully planned DNA segments into genomes of living cells and of testing the effects of these changes. The study is being reported in the June issues of Nature Biotechnology and Nature Genetics.
Until now, changing the DNA sequence has been a slow and labor-intensive process. It took several weeks to alter just one DNA region at a time; testing the effects of each of these changes took even longer. In the new study, Weizmann Institute scientists have developed a technology that makes it possible to simultaneously introduce tens of thousands of DNA regions into tens of thousands of living cells – each region in a separate cell – in a planned and systematic manner, and to measure the results of each such change with great precision and within a single experiment.
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The Centre for the Study of European Politics & Society at Ben-Gurion University
and The S. Daniel Abraham Center for International & Regional Studies
at the Tel Aviv University
are pleased to invite you to
The First Conference of Young Israeli Researchers in European Studies
Wednesday 20 June 2012
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva
W.A. M. Minkoff Senate Building
Please confirm your participation:
Tel: 08-6477064 or 054-5844774
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American intends to update up to half of its existing 767-300ER aircraft. Those aircraft that are part of the redesign will operate in the new configuration with fully lie-flat Business Class Seats and all-aisle access. The remaining 767-300ERs that are not redesigned will be retired over time.
To the Israeli customer American Airlines offers attractive fares from Tel Aviv to The USA in cooperation with feeders such as ELAL, British Airways and more.
American Airlines is represented by TAL Aviation, sole representative of leading Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qantas in Israel .
