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India to observe ‘Janata curfew’ on Sunday amid spurt in Coronavirus cases : Appeal from Honourable Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi
New Delhi: The country will be observing an unprecedented shutdown on Sunday following Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s appeal for a ‘Janata curfew‘, where people have been urged to voluntarily stay indoors to check the spread of coronavirus while public transport will be suspended or curtailed and all markets and shops except those dealing in essential…
Novel coronavirus : A Pandemic Microbe
Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a new strain that was discovered in 2019 and has not been previously identified in humans. Coronaviruses are…
Monitoring brains replaying memories in real time – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
In a study of epilepsy patients, researchers at the National Institutes of Health monitored the electrical activity of thousands of individual brain cells, called neurons, as patients took memory tests. They found that the firing patterns of the cells that occurred when patients learned a word pair were replayed fractions of a second before they…
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