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New infections in Israel hit 10-week high
The number of new cases will reach 6,000 within two weeks if no new restrictions are introduced, says Prof. Eran Segal.
3,594 people tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday in Israel, the Ministry of Health reports, up from 2,871 on Sunday and up nearly 60% week-on-week from 2,284 last Monday. A record 86,857 tests were carried out yesterday with 4.2% proving positive. This is the highest number of new daily infections since early October.
There are currently 472 people seriously ill with the virus in hospital, up from 456 yesterday, including 119 on ventilators. 378,259 Israelis have contracted Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, 4.1% of Israel s population, and 3,111 people have died, including 10 over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health reports.
Study sheds new light on immune system interactions with cancer
Cancers like melanoma are hard to treat, not least because they have a varied bag of tricks for defeating or evading treatments.
A combined research effort by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and researchers in the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam and the University of Oslo, Norway, shows exactly how tumors, in their battles to survive, will go so far as to starve themselves in order to keep the immune cells that would eradicate them from functioning.
The immunotherapies currently administered for melanomas work by removing obstacles that keep immune cells called T cells from identifying and killing tumor cells. Recent research suggested that in melanoma, another blocker could assist the T cells - this one to stop an enzyme called IDO1 that is overproduced by the cancer cells.
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HAIFA, Israel, Dec. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Beyeonics Surgical is a medical technology company developing surgeon-centered visualization solutions. Operating from Israel, the company leverages cutting-edge imaging and head-mounted display (HMD) technologies originally developed for aerospace applications.
Dr. Bakalash became Chief medical officer of Beyeonics Surgical on October 1
st , 2020. She is a seasoned biotechnology entrepreneur and an ophthalmic surgeon with more than two decades of demonstrated leadership in business, science, and medicine. Before stepping in as Beyeonics Surgical CMO, she had worked with the company as a consultant for nearly 4 years. As the founder of SB Strategic Development Consultants Group, she provided clinical development, strategic planning, and business development guidance to Beyeonics, as well as with other start-up companies, venture funds and global pharma companies- spanning the pharmaceutical,
Choose moderation and unburden the earth December 21, 2020, 7:52 PM IST
By Narayani Ganesh
A new year never fails to inspire us to get on those weighing scales and make a solemn, earnest resolution to shed the extra kilos. Walk regularly, eat right, exercise, are all on the to-do list at least for a couple of weeks until it all gets forgotten in the hurly burly of life. But what of the weight, the burden, we’ve been heaping on Planet Earth? Do we have any thoughts on shedding those extra kilos before we paint ourselves into a corner?
According to scientists researching human impact on Earth, the mass of all human-created things including built-up infrastructure, vehicles and all manner of manufactured goods, now “exceeds the weight of all living things on the planet.” Not only that, using a combination of computational and experimental synthetic biology tools and satellite imagery, systems biologist Ron Milo of the Weizmann Institute of Science and his tea