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The Jewish contribution to AI’s long development has been considerable and continues to this day, along with the collaboration between AI scientists in Israel and those abroad.

‘It was a terrific business,’ Pini Peter says of binary options firm SpotOption, ordered to pay back over $200 million by judge after it mounted no defense against US allegations

Octopuses have a massively expanded repertoire of miRNA in their neural tissue, reflecting a similar development to that which occurred in vertebrates. Findings suggest miRNA plays a significant role in the development of complex brains.

The battle against breast cancer is recruiting cutting edge Israeli technology, creating systems promising to improve breast cancer diagnosis and treatment of the illness, of which annually in Israel die 1,000 women

Study suggests the possibility of ‘off-the-shelf’ immunotherapies in which T cell receptors that recognize cancer hotspots can be prepared in advance.

Immunotherapy has sparked new hope for people with cancer, but for it to work, the patient’s immune system must be able to “see” the tumor. There are

An end to invasive biopsies? A simple, inexpensive blood test could diagnose a wide array of diseases including cancers, liver diseases, immune disorders and more. Israa Sharkia preparing blood samples for DNA sequencing. Photo courtesy of Hebrew University of Jerusalem Nobody enjoys getting a biopsy, where a tissue sample is surgically taken and analyzed in a lab for signs of disease such as cancer. It’s not only unpleasant for the patient, but also has clinical drawbacks: a biopsy doesn�...

the potential to diagnose a wide array of diseases. By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel Getting seriously sick is never fun and often very complicated when invasive tests are required, but an Israeli research team has developed a new blood test has the potential to diagnose a wide array of diseases – including cancers, liver diseases, immune disorders and other illnesses – without the need for painful and sometimes dangerous biopsies. Using advanced techniques that track the DNA from diffe...

Credit: Hebrew University of Jerusalem In diagnostic medicine, biopsies, where a sample of tissue is extracted for analysis, is a common tool for the detection of many conditions. But this approach has several drawbacks - it can be painful, doesnt always extract the diseased tissue, and can only be used in a sufficiently advanced disease stage, making it, in some cases, too late for intervention. These concerns have encouraged researchers to find less invasive and more accurate options for di...