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Memorial Service for Haim Weizmann Sunday

Follow Israel news briefs on and (IsraelNN.com) A memorial service will be held Sunday for Israel's first president, Haim Weizmann. The memorial will be held on the 57th anniversary of his death, and will be attended by...

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Early scents really do get 'etched' in the brain

Common experience tells us that particular scents of childhood can leave quite an impression, for better or for worse. Now, researchers reporting the results of a brain imaging study online on Nov. 5 in Current Biology, a Cell...

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Tweak Gravity: What If There Is No Dark Matter?

Theorists and observational astronomers are hot on the trail of dark matter , the invisible material thought to account for puzzling mass disparities in large-scale astronomical structures. For instance, galaxies and galactic...

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Is AES encryption crackable?

By Jack M. Germain, TechNewsWorld In the field of computer technology, some topics are so frequently and fiercely disputed that they almost resemble religious feuds -- Mac vs. PC, for instance, or open source vs. proprietary...

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Rosetta Genomics Strengthens MicroRNA Intellectual Property Position with Receipt of Additional...

REHOVOT, Israel & PHILADELPHIA----Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. , a leading developer of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S.

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Week of Nov. 2, 2009: Eli Lilly Opens Biotech Center; Johnson & Johnson Announces Restructuring;...

Company Notes Amylin Pharmaceuticals (San Diego, CA) and Takeda Pharmaceutical (Osaka, Japan) entered into a drug-development pact for the treatment of obesity and related indications. Ligand Pharmaceuticals (San Diego, CA)...

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New School Building Opens at Sapir College

Follow Israel news briefs on and (IsraelNN.com) Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar will join students at an elementary school in Rehovot and teach a civics class at at the AMIT high school for girls. The minister will follow up...

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Foamix Expands International Patent Protection for its Emollient Foam Platform

The Patent, Entitled "Cosmetic and Pharmaceutical Foam," Covers Foamix's Emulsion-Based Foams and Their Use for Bacterial, Fungal and Viral Infections, Inflammatory Conditions, and Many Other Disorders REHOVOT, Israel, November...

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Nova Announces Record Net Income in the Third Quarter of 2009

Posted on: Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 03:30 CST REHOVOT, Israel, November 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. (Nasdaq: NVMI), provider of leading edge stand alone metrology and the market leader of...

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Muslims, Jews and the Nobel Prize

Next month, Prof. Ada Yonath will be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry, becoming the fifth Israeli scientist to win this award. This has sharpened, once again, the grim statistics regarding the scarcity of Nobel laureates in...

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