ISRAELI INGENUITY

Israeli Nano-Lubricant Could Mean No More Oil Changes (NanoTechwire.com)
NanoLub is the world's first synthetic lubricant to be based on spherical inorganic nanoparticles. NanoLub dramatically outperforms every known commercial solid lubricant marketed today. Its creator, Rehovot-based ApNano Materials, has been selected by the U.S. investing journal Red Herring as one of the top 100 innovators that will drive global markets in 2005.

New Israeli Gel Promotes Healing by Gluing Bone Pieces Together (News-Medical.Net)
A new material that fuses biological and synthetic substances at the molecular level speeds bone and cartilage repair, say its creators at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. A report on the work, authored Dror Seliktar of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was published online in the November 2004 Biomaterials journal.