Israel medical breakthroughs

Israeli scientists help solve genetic mystery linking hearing loss and gray hair

Researchers from Tel Aviv University and international partners identified a rare genetic variant that disrupts hearing and may alter hair pigmentation.

THE NORMAL, healthy cellular architecture of the inner ear.
Dr Yarden Shor Nareznoy , Scientist of the Samueli Institute and Maya Avraham Hayun, QA Manager at the Samueli Institute

Israeli doctors use patients' own cells to attack blood cancer cells in medical breakthrough

 DTRAX X-ray

World's first spinal cord transplant to take place in Israel, could allow patients to walk again

Representative images of the microstructure of formed hydrogels under various US induction durations, taken by a scanning electron microscope.

Technion breakthrough for better drug delivery and tissue implantation


What is Israel fighting for?

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How lucky is Israel?

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Weizmann scientists bring nature back to artificially selected lab mice

Dr. Kimchi and her team developed lab mice that retain some natural instincts, such as the ability to react to danger.

Lab technician using microscope

Wading Through Widowhood: Here’s to health

The room was not particularly romantic. Situated on the fourth floor of the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, it was ward No. 5 in the Neurology Department.

An MRI machine being assembled

Witches in the Holy Land

Shamanism is gaining popularity as a way of serving Mother Earth.

A shrine to Mother Earth is a place to light candles and give thanks.

Empowering people with Parkinson’s

The Israel Parkinsons’s Association helps patients and their families explore ways to best live with the complex disease.

British Prime Minister David Cameron looks through a microscope at regenerating cells, part of a Parkinson’s disease research project.

Niche players

From bloodless circumcision to personalized medical searches, Israeli medical entrepreneurs are coming up with ideas to solve unmet problems.

Israel's medical teams