Rats in an Israeli lab were able to form stronger memories after receiving a certain enzyme. In the future, this may have applications for humans.

Imagine never forgetting a single detail of your life — what you got for your 14th birthday, or the phone numbers of every one of your romantic interests. New science from Israel shows that this might be in the realm of possibility. The big question is: Would it be good for us?

Synthetic peptide significantly enhances the only currently approved drug to get blood flow moving to the brain after a stroke.

Could a new Israeli treatment help save millions of people from death and severe disability after a stroke?

The six-person team of the recently funded company Thrombotech believes they have a fighting chance. Their new drug amplifies the effects of one of the only existing stroke medications on the market, while preventing dangerous side effects.

Doctors were able to save the life of a 14 year old girl from Angola after they took out from her chest a 14 cm Tumor that pressed her heart and threatened her life.The tumor weighs half a kilo and it pushed her heart to the side, under her arm. Only a few similar cases are known in the whole world.

Elisa Manuel Antonio was first diagnosed during the Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) medical mission In Angola last October. Elisa was examined by senior cardiologist Dr. AlonaRaucher, who saw such a huge tumor for the first time in her career. “I was shocked when I first saw her”, says Dr. Raucher, “and immediately understood we need to bring her to Israel to try and save her life”.Elisa was brought to Israel by SACH.

A simple bedside test to be available soon in Europe may be the most potent weapon against hospital-borne infection to date.

A new technology -- developed by a 91-year-old scientist at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem -- is putting Israel way out front in the worldwide fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

It's a well-established fact that hospital-borne infections are a top killer in the United States and Europe. Use as much antibacterial hand gel as you like, but no one is totally immune from "superbugs" spawned by the overuse or misuse of antibiotics. People with compromised immune systems, newborns and the elderly are especially easy prey for these microbes.