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A cinnamon pastry in a bottle, how fun for this fridge.

Cinnamon pastry-flavored protein drink, Yotvata
Protein-enriched yogurt with a fruit layer and cooking and baking yogurt, Tnuva

Layers upon layers of flavors

Gluten-free protein bar in vanilla crunch white chocolate flavor

Gluten-free protein bar in vanilla crunch white chocolate flavor

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Functional training, and then a functional snack


Israeli investment in alternative proteins jump eight times

Worldwide, investments in alternative protein companies reached $3.1 billion in 2020, and is expected to reach $140 billion, or 10% of the total meat market, by 2030.

A burger made with black beans and canola protein powder at Burcon's alternative meats protein lab in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada August 23, 2019

Mosquito protein could lead to groundbreaking virus treatments - study

The protein AEG12 is able to strongly inhibit flaviviruses, a family of viruses consisting of known highly contagious and potentially deadly diseases like Zika, West Nile, dengue and yellow fever.

A Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito is seen on the skin of a human host in this 2014 picture from the Center for Disease Control. C. quinquefasciatus is known as one of the many arthropodal vectors responsible for spreading the arboviral encephalitis, West Nile virus (WNV) to human beings through thei

Technion solves decades-old problem surrounding protein synthesis

Until now, scientists had no choice but to allow proteins to fold in whichever way it falls, with the process taking hours to days with expected loss in material along the way.

A model of the protein (the blue ribbon) and the DNA (the spheres) is binds

Israeli researchers release findings on how body deteriorates with age

While the deterioration had been previously demonstrated in worms, Technion recreated the conditions in human cells and presented its findings in the context of heat stress.

Doctoral student Amal Younis

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