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David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian win the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine


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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine has gone in this thirteenth edition to David Julius, from the University of California, San Francisco, and Ardem Patapoutian, from the Scripps Institute, La Jolla (United States), for identifying the receptors that enable us to sense temperature, pain and pressure.
Temperature, pain and pressure are part of our sense of touch, perhaps the least understood of the five main senses of humans, read the opening words of the citation. Julius and Patapoutian provided a molecular and neural basis for thermosensation and mechanosensation.
This line of research holds out exciting medical possibilities, because it sheds light on how to reduce chronic and acute pain associated with a range of diseases, trauma and their treatments. In fact, several pharmaceutical laboratories are working to identify molecules that act on these receptors with the aim of treati ....

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LTTE weapons haul surfaces during rain


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A cache of arms and ammunition hidden by the LTTE during the war at Airiviyal Nagar area in Kilinochchi has surfaced following heavy rains on Monday.
Residents of the area found the weapons jutting out of the earth and informed the Kilinochchi police, who with the assistance of the STF excavated the location near the buildings of Department of Animal Science of the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Jaffna and found the weapons stash.
There were five T 56 assault rifles, a magazine and 40 bullets.
Police said that the matter would be reported to the Kilinochchi Magistrate’s Court and permission wouold be sought to destroy the recovered items. ....

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President suspends arrival of passengers from UK


President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday suspended the arrival of passengers from the United Kingdom with immediate effect due to a new virulent strain of COVID-19 currently spreading across the UK.
The President’s Office said the decision had been taken at the daily meeting of the COVID-19 Prevention Committee at the Presidential Secretariat following a review of the new strain of the virus and its spread.
Passengers arriving here from the UK on Tuesday will be accommodated at hotels after conducting PCR tests and for 14 days under the supervision of the health officials. They will be further subjected to 14 more days of home quarantine. ....

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