Learn about Recent Hadassah Research

• Nerve cells created from human embryonic stem cells improve the functioning of a laboratory rat with Parkinson's disease.
• Discovery of a new gene mutation and its pathway for causing a fatal pediatric metabolic disease.
• World's first computer-assisted, minimally invasive hip replacement surgery.
• Cervical collar for trauma patients (in collaboration with Tel Aviv University's technology transfer company) that both protects the neck and keeps the patient's airway open.
• Treatment for lupus, involving a device called the "Lupusorb Column," which removes antibodies from the bloodstream.
• Blood test to diagnose brain tumors using DNA samples from very small fragments of brain tumor tissue, potentially eliminating the need for invasive biopsy.
• Development of a peptide (in collaboration with a team from the Univeristy of Pennsylvania, USA) that could save the lives of people stricken with ischemic strokes, by bypassing serious side effects of a medication used to dissolve blood clots.
• Possibility of image-guided treatment of cancer through identification of genetic malfunctions and biochemical processes of malignant tumors, using the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) machine.
• Back brace for scoliosis sufferers, which signficiantly reduces spinal curvature.
• Effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy in safeguarding the heart, when given to healthy women at the onset of menopause.
• Attaching a girdle to a woman's stomach can enable someone who lacks a normal stomach wall to conceive and carry a baby to term.
• Severe perforation in a fetus' abdomen can be treated by removing much of the ruptured intestine a few hours after the baby's birth.
• Generating transgenic plants to yield genetically modified enzymes to treat Gaucher Disease and other enzyme and protein deficiencies.