FDA clears Israeli app that fine-tunes insulin doses for people with type 2 diabetes
DreaMed Diabetes, spun out of Schneider Children's Medical Center, won US clearance for MODI, which adjusts insulin injections from glucose data between doctor visits.
Read the story →Israel launches a $500 million philanthropic hub to turn lab discoveries into drugs
Fifteen universities, hospitals and health funds joined the Israel National Biotech Innovation Center, which aims to rescue promising research stranded by a funding drought.
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Michael Bloomberg gives $155 million for a public science hall in Boston
The largest gift in the Museum of Science's history funds a venue named for Bloomberg's parents, where the public can meet scientists on AI, climate, health and space.
Read the story →Olympus buys Israeli BioProtect, maker of a prostate radiation spacer, for $270 million
The Netanya company's biodegradable balloon shields healthy tissue during prostate cancer radiation and has been used in more than 11,000 procedures.
Read the story →Mandel Foundation's $125 million gift is the largest to higher education in Ohio
The Cleveland foundation created by brothers Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel will fund a humanities building, social-work scholarships and more at Case Western Reserve.
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Michael and Susan Dell pledge $750 million for an 'AI-native' Texas medical center
The gift creates the UT Dell Medical Center and a 300-acre research campus in Austin, making the Dells the University of Texas's first billion-dollar donors.
Read the story →Medtronic buys Israel's CathWorks after its AI heart test matches the invasive standard
The $585 million deal follows a 1,900-patient trial showing CathWorks' wire-free FFRangio angiogram analysis was as safe as pressure-wire testing.
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Sandy and Joan Weill give $120 million, the largest gift ever to veterinary medicine
The former Citigroup chief and his wife funded a new animal teaching hospital and cross-species disease research at UC Davis, which renamed its veterinary school for them.
Read the story →Boeing and the Technion move to build jet fuel from green hydrogen and captured CO2
After a feasibility study, the Boeing-Technion sustainable aviation fuel centre entered a development phase aimed at commercial production and a new fuel-testing facility.
Read the story →Jerusalem's Lightricks releases its 4K video-and-sound AI model with open weights
At CES 2026 the maker of Facetune published the weights and training code of LTX-2, letting researchers and small firms run a top-tier video generator on their own machines.
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