Another international company is eyeing Israeli startups and this time it's retail giant eBay. The company is setting up an incubator, which will help young Israeli startups develop their products.

Cardiologist until now worked under the assumption that the heart cannot heal itself. But an Israeli study, which stumbled upon the heart's self-regenerating stem cells, challenges this notion.

More than a century after it was devised, Einstein's theory of relativity still makes the headlines. A team of Israeli researchers has used a method based on the theory to discover a previously unknown planet outside the solar system.

Beyond Verbal, an Israeli startup, claims to take computer-based voice recognition one step further by creating software that is able to detect not just the words, but the emotional nuances of a voice to decipher how a person is feeling.

Until today, schizophrenia could only be physically diagnosed after a patient's death. For the first time, Israeli researchers have found a way to biologically detect schizophrenia by analyzing tissue from the patient's nose.

For 5,000 years, dates have been considered part of a healthy diet. A recent study from Israel examined the nine varieties growing in the holy land and showed that the sweet fruit is good for your heart and liver.

As fantastic as it may sound, an Israeli-American company is actually splicing the DNA from a firefly into a plant, to create plants and trees that may prove to be the sustainable streetlights of the future.

Crazy for Facebook? Be careful! Researchers from Tel Aviv University have discovered that in some cases, social networks such as Facebook cause psychotic episodes and delusions.

When it comes to website development, it is often difficult to find a designer who can also write code. Israeli startup Webydo is trying to eliminate the code-writer by offering a platform that takes a design – and generates code automatically.

Some diseases are accompanied by a collapse of the immune system, causing them to spread faster. A recent research has shown that this is a result of a malfunction in an otherwise positive process.

Ever been to a foreign country and wished you had a local friend? Someone to take you around and introduce you to local culture and customs? Well, now you can, with Israeli startup EatWith.

The popularity of crowdfunding keeps growing, but attracting people to your project still requires hard work. That's why Israeli crowdfunding platform Mimoona says that instead of driving traffic to your project, it will drive your project to where there is already traffic.

Having a technology track your behavior sounds like the opposite of privacy protection, but Israeli company BioCatch's technology monitors the way you act to ensure that only you gain access to your private information.

How often do you listen to your doctor's recommendations? Would you be more inclined to get a flu shot if your doctor got one? As it turns out – most people would. A new study suggests that doctors lead by example.

Not everyone can take photos like an expert and touching them up is no task for a novice. Israeli entrepreneur Aviv Gadot has created Pixtr, the app that will touch-up your photos for you.