The Israelis do not build palm-shaped islands, imposing skyscrapers, nor luxury hotels, and their leaders do not lead cars to massive silver bodywork (an allusion to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates). The pride of Israel lies in the fact that its technologies can be used by all humanity:
1. Tel Aviv University is developing a nasal vaccine that will protect against Alzheimer’s disease and cerebral vascular accidents.
2. The Technion (Haifa) has developed a simple blood test to detect different types of cancer.
3. The Ichlov center (Tel Aviv) has isolated a protein that makes colonoscopy useless to detect colon cancer, thanks to a simple blood test. Colon cancer kills around 500,000 people each year.
4. Acne does not kill, but it is a source of anxiety among adolescents. The Carlite laboratory has developed a remedy. High intensity UV radiation kills bacteria responsible for acne.
5. The Givan imaging laboratory has developed a tiny pill -shaped camera which, once swallowed, transmits thousands of images of the digestive tract. These high quality images (2 per second for 8 hours) make it possible to identify polyps, cancers and sources of bleeding. The images are transmitted to a chip that stores and transmits them to a computer. At the end of the process, the capsule is expelled by the anus.
6. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed an electric neurostimulator (with batteries) implanted in the chest of patients with Parkinson’s disease, similar to a cardiac stimulator. The emissions of this device block the nervous signals responsible for the tremors.
7. The simple smell of a patient’s breath can detect lung cancer. The Russell Berry Institute of Nanotechnology has created sensors capable of detecting and recording 42 biomarkers indicating the presence of lung cancer without requiring biopsy.
8. Catheterization can be deleted in many cases. Endopath is a device placed between the fingers of the index that measures the state of the arteries and predicting the risk of heart attack in the next 7 years.
9. Bar-Ilan University is studying a new drug that fights viruses by blood. It is called a trap and a lure, because it causes self -destruction of the virus. Very useful for fighting hepatitis and, in the future, against AIDS and Ebola.
10. Israeli scientists from the Hadassah Medical Center (Jerusalem) may have discovered the first remedy against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in an Orthodox rabbi. Stephen Hawking, a famous British scientist, suffered from this disease and used methods invented by Israeli scientists to develop it.