Israeli company formulates a drug that ‘trains' the immune system to seek and destroy malignant cells that have already invaded the body.

As we get older, modern medicine will help more of us live with cancer rather than die from it. That's the assumption behind a vaccine to treat cancer, being developed by a pharmaceutical company in Israel.

Vaxil BioTherapeutics' main product, ImMucin, is now in advanced clinical trials at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem.

A computer chip that mimics the cerebellum's coordination of body movements isn't science fiction. It's working in a lab at Tel Aviv University.

ABC News nicknamed it "RoboRat" - a rodent with a hybrid composition of a biological brain and a synthetic device.

This cutting-edge experiment at Tel Aviv University involved wiring a computer chip with a manmade segment of cerebellum alongside the skull of a rodent with a disabled cerebellum. The device, remarkably, allowed the rat to return to normal activity. 

Way underneath the salty surface of the lowest spot on earth, microorganisms and underground springs thrive.

A massive algae bloom that turned the Dead Sea red in the 1980s convinced scientists that there was life in that famous inland salt lake after all. A new set of studies by underwater researchers indeed shows that Israel's Dead Sea holds a vast number of living secrets waiting to be revealed.

Positioned in the lowest spot on earth, more than a thousand feet below sea level, the Dead Sea offers plenty more than a nature lover's vista. Its black and slimy mud is a remedy for skin disorders, its salty air a tonic for chronic disorders from asthma to Crohn's disease.

BillGuard scans your bills for scams, saving users more than $250,000 in first two months of beta testing.

If you're like many people, when you get your credit card statement you probably give it a quick skim. Going through all the charges line by line just takes too much time, so you hope for the best and trust in your card provider.

That's not the best idea, says Yaron Samid, CEO of the hot new Israeli startup BillGuard. But not to worry: BillGuard will do the scanning for you, looking for scams, bad billing practices, double charges and errors. Samid estimates that BillGuard finds at least one bad charge for one out of every five subscribers of the free service.

Discovers “impossible” quasicrystals.
Proves quasicrystals are “mosaics” that do not repeat.
Fundamentally changes way chemists view matter.  

Israeli chemist Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals, a mosaic-like chemical structure that was previously deemed impossible. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Dr. Shechtman’s discovery in 1982 “fundamentally changed the way chemists look at solid matter,” Al Jazeera TV reported.

A new exhibit pays homage to Israeli ingenuity behind gadgets like the Disk-on-Key, PillCam, solar windows and a space camera.

One of Israel's sources of pride is the enormous number of inventions and innovations that have taken root on its soil over 63 years -- despite challenges of geography, size and diplomacy. The ever-churning Israeli mind has brought us drip irrigation, the cherry tomato, the electric car grid, the Disk-on-Key and much more.

A new Israeli genetic tracking system keeps tabs on animal produce and helps prevent the onset of food crises around the world.

Wondering where that steak came from, and whether it has a clean bill of health? Soon, you may be able to find out before you take it to the checkout counter. The Israeli company Bactochem offers a genetic bar-coding system that keeps tabs on every head of cattle from farm to fork. 

At its R&D center in Herzliya, General Motors looks to Israeli engineers for tomorrow's automotive technology, and invests in Israeli startups with exciting products to share.

What's good for General Motors is good for America - and good for Israel, as it turns out. The American auto giant has built a significant presence in Israel - both in research and development, and as a corporate organization.