An oral insulin capsule developed by an Israeli company is about to start final trials, paving the way to the first effective diabetes treatment without injections.

Israeli researchers have used brainwaves of humans under strain to control the release of medicine by tiny robots made from shells made of DNA; Israeli-based NRGene is turning its attention to the human genome in order to help diagnose genetic disorders at an early stage, and much more.

Israeli students developed a one-handed thoracic portal opener that shortens the procedure time of chest-tube insertion from minutes to less than 30 seconds, and another Israeli researcher has discovered that Gallium in liquid form can rapidly halt uncontrolled bleeding, without causing blood clots.

No mission is impossible for inventive Israelis who read ‘impossible’ as ‘I’m possible’ and don’t regard probable failure as a reason not to try.