The Verily center will focus on early research with Israel's Shaare Zedek hospital using an AI system to help detect colorectal cancer.

The Israeli startup, which previously mapped the genome of bread, now identified a mutation that causes colon cancer.

An Israeli company has come up with a tiny capsule you can swallow that detects polyps painlessly as it travels through the colon. The capsule's tiny X-ray radar device creates a 3D image of the colon with minimal exposure to radiation.

Malignant colorectal tumors are preventable, and when caught as precancerous polyps, growths can be safely removed.