Google’s Verily Life Sciences Opens R&D Center in Israel with Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center Verily Life Sciences and Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Teams LinkedIn Healthcare, data science and technology company Verily, a company belonging to Google parent Alphabet company, is opening a new research and development center in Israel. The Verily Israel team will focus […]
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Prof. Neta Erez / Breakthrough in the battle against breast cancer Scientists at Tel Aviv University observed changes in healthy lung tissue that indicate the tissue is preparing for supporting the growth of disseminated breast cancer cells. The changes were discovered in the tumor’s “microenvironment,” notably in connective tissue known as fibroblasts. According to the […]
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New research found a link between COVID-19 and lasting cognitive deficits, including the acceleration of Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer’s Association said in a press release. The findings, which were announced at the 2021 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, held virtually and in Denver, reveal that some COVID-19 patients experience short- and/or long-term neuropsychiatric symptoms, including loss of […]
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Israel’s Rapyd Hits $10 Billion Valuation Rapyd just brought in $300 million. Rapyd co-founders Arkady Karpman (right), Arik Shtilman, and Omer Priel (left). (Company PR pic) Rapyd, an Israeli global payments and fintech company, is now a unicorn. And what a unicorn! Rapyd now has a $10 billion valuation. Rapyd hit this milestome mark upon […]
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Ivermectin, a drug used to fight parasites in third-world countries, could help reduce the length of infection for people who contract coronavirus for less than a $1 a day, according to recent research by Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. Prof. Eli Schwartz, founder of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Disease at Sheba, conducted a […]
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Tel Aviv University Unveils New Climate Change Exhibition Judi Lax of TAU presents the new exhibit (Press Release) Tel Aviv University has opened a new exhibition about climate change, “Global Warning: The Climate, the Crisis and Us”. Considering the current spate of heatwaves around the world, it seems that TAU has a good sense of […]
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Israel IPOs and Unicorns July 2021 Fireblocks co-founders Idan Ofrat (from right), Michael Shaulov and Pavel Berengoltz (PR Pic) Startup Nation continues to excel at what it does best: multi-billion dollar exits by way of an IPO and startups reaching valuations of more than a billion dollars. The latter are known as unicorns. While things […]
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Israel will launch its administration of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine on Sunday and begin “widely using” it among the Israeli population, the Health Ministry said Friday. The ministry had announced plans to begin allowing health funds to order and distribute the Moderna vaccine earlier in the month. On Friday, it elaborated on the protocol for […]
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Coralogix Israeli Data Streaming Startup Raises $55 Million Coralogix co-founders Ariel Assaraf (right) and Yoni Farin. (Photo Asaf Peretz) Israeli streamlining analytics startup Coralogix raised $55 million in a Series C funding round, led by New investor Greenfield Partners with participation from Red Dot Capital Partners, StageOne Ventures, Eyal Ofer’s – O.G. Tech, Janvest Capital […]
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Jared Kushner is Quitting Politics Poor Jared Kushner! His political career seems to have come to an end. Well, Jared Kushner will just have to settle for being extremely rich from family money and being married to a super-rich beautiful woman, Ivanka Trump. The son-in-law of former U.S. President Donald Trump got to spend four […]
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