Biotech

Startup wants to grow “headless humans” to replace lab animals

Researchers describe brainless, lab-grown human bodies engineered to host full organ systems and study disease without consciousness.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The four-story ‘Clore Person, with inflatable organs that are activated by climbing inside the giant statue
Noam Solomon, CEO of Immunai, is using AI technology to map a key part of the human physiology – the immune system – and help discover and develop therapeutics that will ultimately save lives.

Israeli mathematician uses AI to decode human immune system

How an Israeli mathematician is using AI to decode the human immune system and transform patient treatment

|ByRUTH MARKS EGLASH
Visitors walk across salt formations along the receding shoreline of the Dead Sea, a stark sign of the region’s growing environmental crisis.

Israel's overlooked challenge: Environmental damage from two years of war - from the editor

As the war winds down, Israel faces a quieter crisis – environmental damage from Gaza to the Dead Sea, alongside long-neglected ecological failures now demanding urgent attention

|ByRUTH MARKS EGLASH
CEO and co-founder of Immunai Noam Solomon.

Immunai, Bristol Myers Squibb sign AI immune-data collaboration

The New York-based AI biotech will use its AMICA-OS platform to analyze clinical immune data for BMS, aiming to inform patient stratification, biomarkers, and trial decisions.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

New method for mapping gene expression could be used alongside cancer therapy - study

Findings by Israeli scientists may completely change the way we approach observing the biological processes of the human body in the future.  

JANUARY 31, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Bar-Shir team - Dr. Amnon Bar-Shir and Dr. Hyla Allouche-Arnon

Israeli biotech company paves a new way in healing injured spinal cords

The company successfully used human implants for replacing the injured spinal cord of a living pig, thereby simulating the anticipated surgical procedure in humans.

JANUARY 12, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Piglets at a pig farm.