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Good News: Life Sciences Innovations in Academic Centers in Israel in 2025

This is Rita Bruckstein’s post on Facebook, 9/19/2025

• This is not an inclusive list of innovations available from Israeli establishments in 2025

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Rita Bruckstein

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TIKUN OLAM is the Jewish principle of fixing the world, improving our planet, for the benefit of all.

What are Israeli scientists working on in the middle of a war?

Israelis don’t build palm-shaped islands, towering skyscrapers, or expensive hotels, and their leaders don’t drive cars with huge silver bodies (a reference to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates).

Israel’s pride lies in the fact that its technologies can be used by all of humanity:

1. Tel Aviv University is developing a nasal vaccine that will protect people from Alzheimer’s and stroke.

2. The Technion (Haifa) has developed a simple blood test that can detect several types of cancer.

3. The Ichilov Center (Tel Aviv) has isolated a protein that makes colonoscopy unnecessary to detect colon cancer through a simple blood test. Colon cancer kills about 500,000 people a year.

4. Acne may not be fatal, but in many cases it causes distress in teenagers. The Carlite laboratory has created a drug. High-intensity ultraviolet radiation kills acne-causing bacteria.

5. The Given imaging lab has developed a tiny, pill-shaped camera that is swallowed and transmits thousands of images of the digestive system. These high-quality images (2 per second for 8 hours) can identify polyps, cancer, 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 camera is removed through the anus.

6. The Hebrew University has developed an electrical neurostimulator (batteries) that is implanted in the chests of Parkinson’s patients, similar to a pacemaker. The emissions from this device block the nerve signals that cause tremors.

7. The simple smell of a patient’s breath can detect whether they have lung cancer. The Russell Berry Institute for Nanotechnology has created sensors capable of detecting and recording 42 biomarkers that indicate the presence of lung cancer without the need for a biopsy.

8. In many cases, catheterization will be possible. *Endopat* [EndoPAT 2000 and EndoPAT X] developed by Itamar Medical Ltd. is a device placed between the fingers that can measure the condition of the arteries and predict the possibility of a heart attack in the next 7 years.

[added by ALA]:

• The EndoPAT 2000 is no longer sold by ZOLL Itamar as of May 1, 2025. 

9. At Bar-Ilan University, a new drug is being studied that fights viruses through the bloodstream. It is called *trap and wire* because it causes the virus to self-destruct. It is very useful in combating hepatitis and, in the future, AIDS and Ebola.

10. Israeli scientists at the *Hadassah* Medical Center (Jerusalem) have discovered the first cure for *amyotrophic lateral sclerosis*, also known as “Loewering’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.

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