So small that a trillion of them can fit in a drop of water, a biomolecular computer made of DNA detected cancer in a test tube and released a molecule to destroy it. This was achieved with a 2004 version …

Two Tel Aviv University students, Yoni Cohen-Idov and Uri Mehav, surpassed all expectations by placing first and second, respectively, in the annual European Debating Championships in Newcastle, England early this month. The two Israelis beat out dozens of native English …

Researchers at Nucleix, an Israeli company specializing in DNA analysis, have developed a method to combat the practice of forging DNA. In an article recently published in the scientific journal “Forensic Science International: Genetics,” the researchers show that it is …

Panaya, a leading provider of SaaS (Software as a Service) for automating SAP upgrades, announced that it has secured $5 million in Series B funding. Based in Ra’anana, Israel, Panaya provides SaaS that enables SAP users to save up to …

Israel’s biotechnology drug developer CureTech has obtained approval to begin its Phase I/II clinical trial of its CT-1011, a humanized monoclonal antibody, for the treatment of hepatitis C. The trial will include 20 patients and will begin toward the end …

Yaacov Halperin, CEO of Israeli optician chain Optica Halperin, plans to expand the chain’s US operations beyond Brooklyn and open 15 new branches, starting with Queens and later on moving to Los Angeles. In an interview with Israel’s leading financial …

The flagship annual gathering of the international counter-terrorism community will be hosted for the ninth time by the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) in Herzliya, Israel, on September 7-10, 2009. More than 1,100 top decision-makers, defense, intelligence and police officials, …

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded for the first time in devising a model that describes and identifies a basic cellular mechanism that enables the decoding of speech and other sounds in changing conditions. Our brain can …

Angioslide, a graduate of the Naiot Technological Center in Nazareth in northern Israel, has completed an $8.25 million fund raising round, sources told Globes, Israel’s financial newspaper. Angioslide has developed an angioplasty balloon designed to prevent embolisms. In the next …

Cellcom Israel has just launched the first Googlephone in Israel, preempting the Israel launch of iPhone by several weeks, Israel’s financial newspaper Globes has reported. According to CEO Amos Shapiro, Cellcom is the third operator in the world to launch …