ILSI-Biomed Israel

May 23-25, 2011: save the date for ILSI-BioMed Israel!

Yes. It is about time to open your calendars and write down the next date: May 23-25 2011. ILSI-BioMed Israel 2011, that is. The 10th international Life Science & Technology Week is just around the corner. Time do flies... The event follows the highly successful 2010 BioMed conference which attracted more than 6000 participants from 51 countries. What an event! ILSI-BioMed 2011 will present high-quality program, featuring top-notch industry executives. Israel's most innovative medi...

Human Beta Cells Grown in a Culture

From BioMed Israel Week 2010: A Novel Therapeutic Method Based on the Ability of Stem Cells to Assist in Treating Juvenile Diabetes Will Replace the Insulin Injection Ramot, Tel Aviv University's technology transfer company, will present for the first time a therapeutic approach based on stem cells capability to assist in the treatment of juvenile diabetes, in the Israel BioMed Week 2010, which will be held on the 14th-16th of June in Tel Aviv. The main novelty of the treatment is a br...

A Novel Artificial Pancreas System

An aritifical pancreas system that maintains near-normal glucose levels by injecting both insulin and glucagon was succesfully demonstrated on a small number of patients An artificial pancreas system that closely mimics the body's blood sugar control mechanism was able to maintain near-normal glucose levels without causing hypoglycemia in a small group of patients. The system, combining a blood glucose monitor and insulin pump technology with software that directs administration of insulin an...

A Israeli Drug-by-Design

A new drug devised by Prof. Eldar-Finkleman of Tel Aviv University may slow down Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases. No doubt about it: the science of biology is slowly evolving into bio-engineering. In the past few centuries, mankind was mostly limited to research of biology. Now that we’ve come to understand many of the basic facts of life, we can transform this knowledge into action by ‘building’ new drugs, molecules and even genes. One of the best examples of this n...