It’s too early to call it a breakthrough, but for the first time, a gene therapy has been shown to have a real impact on patients with hemophilia A, the most common form of the chronic blood disease. The early data, which come with plenty of caveats, were reported today by BioMarin (NASDAQ: BMRN), of San Rafael, CA.
“It’s not easy being green,” Kermit the Frog famously sang. While that may be true for some, many Israeli startups are helping the world go ‘green.’ By using innovative technologies which can lead to more environmentally friendly and ecologically responsible decisions and lifestyles, they help protect the environment and sustain its natural resources for current and future generations.
In honor of International Mother Earth Day (or, in short, Earth Day), which is celebrated annually on April 22, here are 10 of the coolest Israeli companies and technologies making our world greener:
La empresa de energía estadounidense se ha acogido a la protección por bancarrota en la que se ha convertido en uno de los mayores concursos de una empresa no financiera en EEUU en los últimos diez años.
La empresa estadounidense de energía solar SunEdison se ha acogido al capítulo 11 de la ley de quiebras de Estados Unidos, que permite a las empresas protegerse y negociar con los acreedores antes de presentar una bancarrota.
El capítulo 11 es una figura similar a lo que en España se conoce como concurso de acreedores o la antigua suspensión de pagos.
A new way of making these tough materials could be a key step in producing better airplane engines and long-lasting machine parts.
Left: In addition to printing individual parts, the process can yield lattices like this one, which can be flexed and twisted to make more complex shapes or to fit a surface such as an airplane wing.
Ceramics are some of the hardest materials on Earth. They can withstand extreme temperatures, and some are impervious to friction, scratching, and other mechanical stresses that wear out metal and plastic. But it can be difficult to make complex shapes out of the materials.
Workplace wellness is under scrutiny by skeptics who argue that the return on investment (ROI) in wellness programs does not justify their costs. What’s the truth here? Can wellness programs help employers reduce out-of-control health care costs? The answer, most emphatically, is yes. But we must first go beyond unduly narrow interpretations of ROI (i.e., “claims ROI”), to understand how properly designed wellness programs can help employers lower health care costs while providing other types of cost savings and competitive advantages.
Metal 3-D printing, which has been around for nearly two decades, is finally coming into its own as a genuine mass manufacturing technology: sales of machines that print metal objects have risen rapidly as manufacturers, especially in the aerospace industry, gear up for commercial production of additively made parts they’ve been developing for years (see “10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013: Additive Manufacturing”).
Intel is cutting 12,000 workers as it faces the financial consequences of underestimating a profound shift in computing from desktop computers to pocket-sized devices.
And more trouble may lie ahead. The rate at which Intel makes technological advances suddenly seems to be slowing, and other looming trends, including artificial intelligence and perhaps virtual reality, look set to benefit a different kind of computer architecture.
