🔹 Tel Aviv University is developing a nasal vaccine that will protect people against Alzheimer’s disease and stroke.

🔹 The Technion Institute of Technology (Haifa) has developed a simple blood test that can detect different types of cancer.

🔹 The Ichlov Center (Tel Aviv) has isolated a protein that makes colonoscopy useless for detecting colon cancer with a simple blood test. Colon cancer kills around 500,000 people per year.

🔹 Acne doesn’t kill anyone, but it causes anxiety and dissatisfaction in adolescents. The Curlight Laboratory has created a remedy by emitting high-intensity UV rays, which kill the bacteria that cause acne without generating additional complications.

🔹 The Given imaging laboratory has developed a tiny camera in the form of swallowed pills and transmits thousands of photos of the digestive tract. These high-quality photos (2 per second for 8 hours) can detect polyps, cancers, and sources of bleeding. The images are sent to a chip, which stores them and sends them to a computer. At the end of the process, the chamber is eliminated through the rectum.

🔹 The Hebrew University (Jerusalem) has developed an electrical neurostimulator (batteries) implanted in the chest of patients with Parkinson’s disease, similar to the cardiac pacemaker. The emissions from this device block the nerve signals that cause tremors.

🔹 The simple smell of a patient’s breath can detect if a patient has lung cancer. The Russell Berrie Institute for Nanotechnology has created sensors that can detect and record 42 biological markers that indicate the presence of lung cancer without requiring a biopsy.

🔹 Catheterization can be waived in many cases. Endopat is a device placed between the indicator fingers, which allows you to measure the condition of the arteries and predict the possibility of a heart attack in the next 7 years.

🔹 Bar Ilan University is studying a new drug that fights viruses through the bloodstream. It’s called Vecoy Trap because it tricks a virus into self-destructing. This could be very useful in combating hepatitis and, in the future, AIDS and Ebola.

🔹 Israeli scientists at Hadassah Medical Center (Jerusalem) may have discovered the first cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehring’s disease, in an Orthodox rabbi. Stephen Hawking, a famous British scientist, suffered from this disease and used methods invented by Israeli scientists to communicate.