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Diets give long-term health benefits

 even if you gain back weight

Staying on a Mediterranean or low-carb

diet gives long-lasting health benefits e

ven if some weight is gained back,

 according to a new Israeli study.

Herbs, spices, seeds, nuts, olive oil and other plant-based foods are the backbone of the Mediterranean diet. Photo by Flash90

Camera 'sees' through

 skin, around corners

An early-stage Israeli invention could one

 day make the surgical biopsy obsolete.

Weizmann Institute researchers Ori Katz, left, and Eran Small.

An illustration of how the device “sees” around corners

Israel's international high

 school for green teens

To open in 2014, the Eastern Mediterranean

 College will offer select students a chance

 to learn tools for the betterment of

their home countries.

The campus of the future Eastern Mediterranean College.

Students will dorm in ecologically built facilities designed by Yoav Messer Architects.

The entrepreneur who

 went from 'Nordau to NASDAQ'

'Improving the world, for Israelis, is a way of life.

 Entering situations of uncertainty is less trauma

tic because that's life here,' says Roni Einav.

The campus of the future Eastern Mediterranean College.

Students will dorm in ecologically built facilities designed by Yoav Messer Architects.

Natural healing from

 Israel's land and sea

The director of a natural medicine

 research center in Jerusalem says

 Israeli plants such as seaweed are

 'treasures' waiting to reveal

healing secrets.

CardioFit gets on your

 nerves to save your heart

A world’s-first Israeli nerve-stimulation

device balances the autonomic nervous

system of heart-failure patients.

In Israel, biotech is a

 woman’s world

sraeli women are dominant in all three

 areas of biomedical engineering — inventions,

industry and investment.

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Safer chemo, thanks

 to Israeli math

A new study explains why certain patients

 develop severe infections after chemotherapy

 and suggests how to avoid this side effect.

Not all white blood cells are created equal. Image via www.shutterstock.com

Banking on gold for cancer

 radiation thrapy

An Arab-Israeli scientist is perfecting a method

for injecting gold nanoparticles into cancer cells

 to make them more vulnerable to radiation.

Amal Ayoub is both the CEO and CTO of Metallo Therapy.

Top 10 ways Israeli scientists

 are battling breast cancer

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month,

ISRAEL21c has put together a list of the top

 10 latest Israeli advances in breast cancer.

One in eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Israeli scientists hope to improve the odds. Photo by www.shutterstock.com

Israeli band gets ready 

for an Arab tour

Members of Orphaned Land have taken the

 unusual step of applying for Turkish citizenship,

which will allow them to put on

shows for fans in Arab nations.

Orphaned Land - music without a nation or religion.

Social beauty site Preen.

 

Me is sitting pretty

Tamar Yaniv’s Preen.Me just raised $800,000 to

make her site the go-to peer authority in the $60 billio

Preen.Me uses the power of crowd-sourcing to help women find the right beauty products.

Tamar Yaniv went from online poker to online beauty.

An A+ Israeli app for school

CoolWork is an application that helps

 kids do homework more effectively.

 But it won’t cheat for you.

sCoolWork aims to take the pain out of schoolwork,

 enabling the students to focus on learning and developing

 their skills. Photo by www.shutterstock.com

The smart keyboard set 

to revolutionize your

 typing experience

Smartype lets you see what you’re typing

 on a built-in screen, without shiftingyour

eyes from keys to screen. It has apps, too.

An embedded screen lets Smartype users see what they’re

 typing without looking up at the screen. Photo by Amos Bar-Ze’ev

Wibbitz livens up online news

A video publishing platform turns content into

 a dynamic video with music, news feeds and a

 human-sounding narrator.

Zohar Dayan, right, and Yotam Cohen are creators of text-to-video publishing service Wibbitz.

It’s about TheTime for new Israeli startups

Telecomm, Internet, media and entertainment companies are the focus of a new Tel Aviv incubator with a $4 million investment.

TheTime’s Nir Tarlovski.

Food Network’s ‘Sweet 

Genius’ is Tel Aviv-bred

Cake maven Ron Ben-Israel opens the third

 season of the Food Network’s competition

among pastry chefs.

Ron Ben-Israel putting the finishing touches on one of his wedding cakes.

Cardboard wheelchair to

 roll out from Israel

Blue-and-white technology with a green

outlook could cheaply give mobility to

 thousands of people with disabilities.

The world's first wheelchair made out of cardboard could be a game-changer for thousands of people with disabilities. (Illustration of wheelchair uses Shutterstock.com images)

New solution for boutique farm waste

Israeli company makes a mini-sewage plan

 to help small wineries, olive oil and cheese

-makers deal with the pollutants\

 from their industries.

Waste from small olive presses, cheese factories

 and wineries is not good for the water or soil.

Cool old-new Arabic 

building wins award

An Arab-Israeli group is recycling traditional

 Arabic construction techniques for keeping

 a house cool in summer, warm in winter.

The “green” building in Sakhnin.

Hussein Tarabeih, executive director of the Towns

 Association for Environmental Quality-Agan Beit Natufa