Pancreatic cancer is deadly: It’s difficult to detect and bedeviling to treat. Just 20 percent of patients survive a year after diagnosis. Less than 10 percent make it to the five-year mark. But recent discoveries — both in the lab and in patients — are raising hope. They’re still early stage. Yet they offer new insight into the causes and progression of the disease — and they may ultimately help doctors better detect, and treat, this difficult cancer.
November 16, 2017
Scientific American reports on research by NASA and others showing that increased lightning occurs in places with more aerosols. Those findings were supported by analyses from Weizmann’s Prof. Ilan Koren and colleagues, who found that “more intense lightning is connected with aerosol sources over land.”
November 15, 2017
For decades, the Earth’s climate zones have shifted toward the poles due to global warming – and they will continue to do so. This according to researchers at Rehovot’s Weizmann Institute of Science, who recently published their findings in Nature Geoscience.
November 14, 2017
Nature reports on research by Prof. Yohai Kaspi’s lab that shows how warmer weather may alter the tracks of cyclonic storms. Such storms may bring “harsher weather to some heavily populated areas.”
November 13, 2017
In warming climates, mid-latitude storms will travel further toward the poles before they reach their maximum intensity - and this, scientists say, will be the ‘new normal’. The study suggests that impacts on weather and climate will be strongest in regions close to the northeastern ocean boundaries, such as the UK and the US west coast.
November 13, 2017
Researchers on the quest to solve the puzzle of what causes deafness got one small step closer with the announcement that scientists at Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science have mapped a certain type of RNA (a molecule essential to the coding and expression of genes) that exists in close proximity to the genes related to hearing.
November 12, 2017
New Scientist reports on the mess Triton, the largest of Neptune’s many moons, made when it joined that planet’s lunar group. A Weizmann scientist and her Colorado colleague “used a series of computer simulations to figure out what the Neptune system was like before Triton barrelled in.”
November 10, 2017
November 14 is World Diabetes Day and the month of November is National Diabetes Month in the United States. While there is not yet a cure for diabetes, many Israeli researchers and companies offer improved approaches for avoiding, managing and treating the condition. Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas cannot make insulin – the hormone that regulates blood sugar — or when the body cannot make good use of the insulin it makes.
November 09, 2017
In this video on Business Insider, Prof. Eran Segal explains why what – and when – we eat is so important.
November 02, 2017
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