BGU's Joyce and Irving Goldman Medical School has brought superior health to all the peoples of the region and set a new standard for community healthcare and integrated medical training throughout the world. Single-electron microchips to replace today's microchips. Prosthesis BGU scientists predict that they will soon be able to use coral to bring permanent relief to patients needing hip replacements, other major bone surgery and those recovering from injuries. It is anticipated that it will be possible to use this procedure on humans within a year. Unlike current expensive techniques, coral bone replacement is as strong as steel.
Coral is abundant and cheap and can be harvested without environmental damage.
Scientists at the University have developed a unique support device for the physically handicapped to aid in the functioning of paralyzed hand and arm muscles. Water management BGU, situated in the heart of the Negev desert, boasts the world's leading desert research facilities and is at the forefront of the global fight against desertification. Research and management is desperately needed to sustain the life-supporting water supplies of the world's one billion people struggling to make drylands both habitable and profitable. BGU's applied research bench marks include biological approaches to treating contaminated water, promotion of desalination and neutralizing toxic water with natural bacterium. The National Committee for Electro-optics and Microelectronics officially approved the VLSI Laboratory at BGU as an Israeli National Center for Research.