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Avoid use of antibody tests for now: ICMR

The Indian Council of Medical Research on Tuesday advised states not to use the new rapid antibody test for Covid-19 from China till further notice after reports emerged that the kits are faulty. “The kits will be tested and validated in the field by our teams.




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COVID-19: 16 companies get funds for R&D work

The department of biotechnology has granted funds to 16 companies for developing drugs, vaccines and devices to fight the Covid-19 pandemic as India looks to speed up the process of tackling the disease.




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Key Pence aide, married to top Trump adviser, diagnosed with coronavirus

The diagnosis of Katie Miller, who is married to White House immigration adviser Stephen Miller, was revealed by Mr. Trump in a meeting with Republican lawmakers.




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Trump utterly failed to prepare for COVID-19: Joe Biden

The President’s entire economic strategy is focussed on helping the wealthy, alleges the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee




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Morning Digest: Maharashtra train accident victims were battling hunger, NGT cites obsolete law in Visakhapatnam gas leak case, and more

A select list of stories to read before you start your day




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COVID-19 testing kit developed by researchers in West Bengal gets ICMR nod

Priced around Rs 500, the device has demonstrated a near-100 per cent accuracy in detecting the virus in a short span of 90 minutes, the statement said quoting an ICMR report.




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How vulnerable are India's states to Covid-19 infections?

This pandemic could act as a starting point for the re-orientation of the primary and district health care systems of Indian states to keep the infections at a manageable level. As India looks to flatten its curve, its state governments need to remember that it cannot move ahead by leaving the Covid-19 vulnerable population behind.




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Need more data, says ICMR on proposal to undertake study of Ganga water for treating COVID-19

The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), an arm of the Jal Shakti Ministry that deal with the rejuvenation programme for the river, had received a number of proposals, including from people and NGOs working on Ganga, to undertake clinical studies for treatment of coronavirus patients with the water, officials said.




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COVID-19 is likely to peak in June-July: Randeep Guleria

New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI) As per the modeling data and the way India's COVID-19 cases are increasing, it is likely that peak can come in June and July, said AIIMS-Delhi Director Dr Randeep Guleria on Thursday.




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ICMR partners India Post for delivery of COVID-19 testing kits to labs

"Indian Council of Medical Research has set a target of carrying out around 1 lakh tests across the country per day. For this crucial work, India Post with its vast network of 1,56,000 post offices has once again turned into a COVID warrior," the statement said.




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Hotter, humid weather may not halt spread of COVID-19: Study

Temperature and latitude are not associated with the spread of COVID-19 disease, according to a global study that found school closures and other public health measures are having a positive effect on containing the novel coronavirus.




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216 districts in country have not reported any COVID-19 cases till now: Health ministry

The ministry asserted that if dos and don'ts are followed, the peak in number of COVID-19 cases can be avoided.




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Karnataka may rope in private medical colleges if Covid-19 cases surge post lock-down

The government will provide doctors with a checklist to follow regarding treatment. We will also be applying to ICMR to seek permission to conduct lung biopsies after the death of patients and for clinical autopsies. This will help in providing critical patients with more effective care and bring down mortality rates, Health and Family Welfare Commissioner Pankaj Kumar Pandey said.




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Mandatory BCG vaccination may make COVID-19 less virulent in India, suggests study

The bacille Calmette-Gurin (BCG) vaccine has a documented protective effect against meningitis and disseminated TB in children, according to the World Health Organisation. It is part of the mandatory childhood immunization programme in many countries including India.




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As senior GPs, doctors of private hospitals sit at home, medical students run the Covid show in Mumbai

Resident doctors, MBBS students and those serving their bond are at the frontline in the fight against Covid-19 in the city as senior clinicians stay away from their duty, leaving the young team of medical professionals firefighting the crisis on their own.




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Judith Beveridge wins 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Award




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The Cambridge introduction to Franz Kafka / Carolin Duttlinger

Hayden Library - PT2621.A26 Z6783 2013




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Faust I & II / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; edited and translated by Stuart Atkins ; with a new introduction by David E. Wellbery

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Ostende: 1936--Sommer der Freundschaft / Volker Weidermann

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The giraffe's neck / Judith Schalansky ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside

Hayden Library - PT2720.A63 H3513 2014




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Limit / Frank Schätzing ; translated by Shaun Whiteside, Jamie Lee Searle and Samuel Willcocks

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Rubble flora: selected poems / Volker Braun ; translated by David Constantine and Karen Leeder

Hayden Library - PT2662.R34 A2 2014




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The science of literature: essays on an incalculable difference / Helmut Müller-Sievers ; Translated by Chadwick Truscott Smith, Paul Babinski, and Helmut Müller-Sievers ; with an afterword by David E. Wellbery

Hayden Library - PT363.S3 M85 2015




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Sturm / Ernst Junger ; Translated by Alexis P. Walker ; Edited and with an Introduction by David Pan

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Summer before the dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 / Volker Weidermann ; translated form German by Carol Brown Janeway

Hayden Library - PT405.W3513613 2016




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New selected poems / Hans Magnus Enzensberger ; translated by David Constantine, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Michael Hamburger, Esther Kinsky

Hayden Library - PT2609.N9 A6 2015




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The last days of mankind: the complete text / Karl Kraus ; translated by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms ; with a glossary and index

Hayden Library - PT2621.R27 L4313 2015




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The woman on the stairs / Bernhard Schlink ; translated from the German by Joyce Hackett and Bradley Schmidt

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Goethe: life as a work of art / Rüdiger Safranski ; translated by David Dollenmayer

Hayden Library - PT2051.S2413 2017




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Collected poems / Thomas Bernhard ; translated by James Reidel

Hayden Library - PT2662.E7 A2 2017




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When I go: selected French poems / Rainer Maria Rilke ; translated with an introduction by Susanne Petermann ; forward by David Rosen

Hayden Library - PT2635.I65 A2 2017




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To die in spring / Ralf Rothmann ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside

Hayden Library - PT2678.O84 I4413 2017




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Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman.

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Rilke's sonnets to Orpheus: philosophical and critical perspectives / edited by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge and Luke Fischer

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As German as Kafka: identity and singularity in German literature around 1900 and 2000 / Lene Rock

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Lyric orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and poetics of community / Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge

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Science Podcast - 2013 science books for kids, newlywed happiness, and authorship for sale in China (29 Nov 2013)

Talking kids' science books with Maria Sosa; predicting happiness in marriage with James McNulty; investigating questionable scholarly publishing practices in China with Mara Hvistendahl.




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Can math apps benefit kids? And a daily news roundup

Talia Berkowitz discusses the use of a math app at home to boost math achievement at school, Catherine Matacic talks about the fate of animals near Chernobyl, a potential kitty contraceptive, and where spiders got their knees. Hosted by Sarah Crespi.




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Podcast: A recipe for clean and tasty drinking water, a gauge on rapidly rising seas, and fake flowers that can fool the most discerning insects

Online News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on what we can learn from 6million years of climate data, how to make lifelike orchids with 3D printing, and crowdsourced gender bias on eBay.   Fernando Rosario-Ortiz joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how approaches to water purification differ between countries.   [Image: Eric Hunt/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0] 0]




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Podcast: Ending AIDS in South Africa, what makes plants gamble, and genes that turn on after death

Listen to stories on how plants know when to take risks, confirmation that the ozone layer is on the mend, and genes that come alive after death, with Online News Editor David Grimm.   Science news writer Jon Cohen talks with Julia Rosen about South Africa’s bid to end AIDS.   [Image: J.Seita/Flickr/Music: Jeffrey Cook]  




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Podcast: An omnipresent antimicrobial, a lichen ménage à trois, and tiny tide-induced tremors

Stories on a lichen threesome, tremors caused by tides, and a theoretical way to inspect nuclear warheads without looking too closely at them, with Catherine Matacic.   Despite concerns about antibiotic resistance, it seems like antimicrobials have crept into everything—from hand soap to toothpaste, and even fabrics. What does the ubiquitous presence of these compounds mean for our microbiomes? Alyson Yee talks with host Sarah Crespi about one antimicrobial in particular—triclosan—which has been partially banned in the European Union.     [Image: T. Wheeler/Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Podcast: Science lessons for the next U.S. president, human high altitude adjustments, and the elusive Higgs bison

This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—jumping spiders that can hear without ears, long-lasting changes in the human body at high altitudes, and the long hunt for an extinct bison—with Science’s Online News Intern Jessica Boddy. Plus, Sarah Crespi talks to Deputy News Editor David Malakoff about six science lessons for the next U.S. president.    [Image: Gil Menda at the Hoy Lab; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Podcast: A close look at a giant moon crater, the long tradition of eating rodents, and building evidence for Planet Nine

This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—eating rats in the Neolithic, growing evidence for a gargantuan 9th planet in our solar system, and how to keep just the good parts of a hookworm infection—with Science’s Online News Editor David Grimm. Plus, Alexa Billow talks to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Maria Zuber about NASA’s GRAIL spacecraft, which makes incredibly precise measurements of the moon’s gravity. This week’s guest used GRAIL data to explore a giant impact crater and learn more about the effects of giant impacts on the moon and Earth.   Listen to previous podcasts.   [Image: Ernest Wright, NASA/GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Podcast: The impact of legal pot on opioid abuse, and a very early look at a fetus’s genome

This week, news writer Greg Miller chats with us about how the legalization of marijuana in certain U.S. states is having an impact on the nation’s opioid problem. Plus, Sarah Crespi talks to Sascha Drewlo about a new method for profiling the DNA of fetuses very early on in pregnancy.   [Image: OpenRangeStock/iStockphoto/Music: Jeffrey Cook] ++   Authors: Sarah Crespi; Alexa Billow




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Podcast: How farms made dogs love carbs, the role of dumb luck in science, and what your first flu exposure did to you

This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—is Bhutan really a quake-free zone, how much of scientific success is due to luck, and what farming changed about dogs and us—with Science’s Online News Editor David Grimm. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Katelyn Gostic of the University of California, Los Angeles, about how the first flu you came down with—which depends on your birth year—may help predict your susceptibility to new flu strains down the road.   Listen to previous podcasts.     [Image:monkeybusinessimages/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Podcast: The rise of skeletons, species-blurring hybrids, and getting rightfully ditched by a taxi

This week we chat about why it’s hard to get a taxi to nowhere, why bones came onto the scene some 550 million years ago, and how targeting bacteria’s predilection for iron might make better vaccines, with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks with news writer Elizabeth Pennisi about the way hybrids muck up the concept of species and turn the evolutionary tree into a tangled web.   Listen to previous podcasts   [Image:  Raul González Alegría; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Podcast: Teaching self-driving cars to read, improving bike safety with a video game, and when ‘you’ isn’t about ‘you’

This week, new estimates for the depths of the world’s lakes, a video game that could help kids be safer bike riders, and teaching autonomous cars to read road signs with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Ariana Orvell joins Sarah Crespi to discuss her study of how the word “you” is used when people recount meaningful experiences. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: VisualCommunications/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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A new taste for the tongue, ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies, and early evidence for dog breeding

This week we have stories on how we taste water, extracting ancient DNA from mummy heads, and the earliest evidence for dog breeding with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks to John Travis about postsurgical cognitive dysfunction—does surgery sap your brain power? Listen to previous podcasts. [Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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A Stone Age skull cult, rogue Parkinson’s proteins in the gut, and controversial pesticides linked to bee deaths

This week we have stories on what the rogue Parkinson’s protein is doing in the gut, how chimps outmuscle humans, and evidence for an ancient skull cult with Online News Editor David Grimm. Jen Golbeck is back with this month’s book segment. She interviews Alan Alda about his new book on science communication: If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? Sarah Crespi talks to Jeremy Kerr about two huge studies that take a nuanced looked at the relationship between pesticides and bees. Read the research in Science: Country-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees and wild bees, B.A. Woodcock et al. Chronic exposure to neonicotinoids reduces honey bee health near corn crops, Tsvetkov et al. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: webted/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Putting rescue robots to the test, an ancient Scottish village buried in sand, and why costly drugs may have more side effects

This week we hear stories about putting rescue bots to the test after the Mexico earthquake, why a Scottish village was buried in sand during the Little Ice Age, and efforts by the U.S. military to predict posttraumatic stress disorder with Online News Editor David Grimm. Andrew Wagner interviews Alexandra Tinnermann of the University Medical Center of Hamburg, Germany, about the nocebo effect. Unlike the placebo effect, in which you get positive side effects with no treatment, in the nocebo effect you get negative side effects with no treatment. It turns out both nocebo and placebo effects get stronger with a drug perceived as more expensive. Read the research. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Chris Burns/Science; Music: Jeffrey Cook]