Professor Avinoam Kadouri and his team from the Technion Insittute of Research have grown human bone from fat tissue in a laboratory, paving the way for patients to have broken bones repaired – or even replaced with new ones grown outside the body from their own cells. The success of the new research will allow doctors to replace shattered bones, fill in defects where bone is missing – such as cleft palate – and carry out other reconstructive surgery
October 12, 2012 07:12 am
WEST POINT: Alison Levine was born with a life-threatening heart condition, Wolf-Parkinson-White Syndrome, that prevented her... read more
October 5, 2012 01:30 pm
MARYLAND: The Maryland/Israel Development Center (MIDC) will showcase some of its best work at an event next week, In Our Own... read more
October 2, 2012 07:08 am
SOUTH CAROLINA- After discovering and admiring the art form of Micrography in Israel a few years ago, Rae Antonoff returned to... read more
September 20, 2012 12:27 pm
CHICAGO: Establishing an important new presence in the center of the country, American Friends of Tel Aviv University has... read more
September 17, 2012 04:44 pm
Here's a video and a short explanation that you can send to your non-Jewish friends about Rosh Hashanah. The Jewish New... read more
