Author: OurCrowd

[Klook in TTRW] Klook ramps up insurance offers

Klook travel and leisure booking platform is partnering with ZA Tech Global Limited to provide travel-related insurance to consumers worldwide. The joint venture agreement will ensure consumers will have seamless access to travel-related insurance policies at competitive prices. Read...

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[Insightec in The Australian Jewish News] Israeli treatment for tremors

ONE of only two current providers in Australia of a groundbreaking Israeli-invented, non-invasive treatment for involuntary shaking has described its non-inclusion in the Medicare Benefits Scheme (MBS) to date as “borderline scandalous”. Since 2017, Israeli startup Insightec’s Exablate Neuro world-first incisionless treatment to alleviate shaking associated with essential tremor, and also Parkinson’s disease, has been performed successfully on more than 4000 patients around the world. Read more...

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[Plenty in NASA] NASA research launches a new generation of indoor farming

The United Nations predicts Earth will have to feed another 2.3 billion people by 2050, mostly concentrated in urban centers far from farmland. Conventional agriculture may not be able to meet that demand, but luckily NASA has been working for decades to tackle food production both on Earth and in space. Feeding astronauts during long-term space exploration means stretching resources to grow plants in space – including minimizing water use and energy consumption and eliminating soil. Read...

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