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ONLINEMODULES New snake species named Melanophidium Khairei discovered in Weste
Ghats
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Target 2016: UPSC GS Researchers have discovered new species of burrowing sn
CURRENTAFFAIRS2016 named Melanophidium khairei or Khaires Black Shieldtai
Northwestern Ghats.
May 2016
This new snake species was correctly identied after a gap
April 2016 | 144 years as it was earlier wrongly identied as identied
March 2016 | Melanophidium Punctatum or Pied-bellied Shieldtail.
Key facts
February 2016 |
The snake belongs to family Uropeltidae, which comprises all species which
January 2016 | burrowers and live mostly underground.
December 2015 | It is burrowing snake of the genus melanophidium. It is found in evergreen forests a
rarely above ground in southern Maharashtra, Goa and northern Karnataka.
November 2015 |
Melanophidium Khairei has been named after Neelimkumar Khaire, the legend
October 2015 | founder of Pune based Katraj Snake Park and Indian Herpetological Society.
September 2015 | New snake genus and a species discovered in Gujarat
August 2015 | Researchers have discovered a new snake genus Wallaceophis and a species nam
gujaratenisis from Gujarat.
July 2015 |
The genus was named after Alfred Russel Wallace for his pioneering work
June 2015 | biogeography, and for co-discovering the theory of natural selection.
The snake belongs to group of colubrid snakes and has similar scalation, tooth num
May 2015 | |
bone morphology and DNA of other snakes in this group.
April 2015 | There are more than 1,800 species of Colubrid snakes (Family Colubridae) across
March 2015 | world.
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January 2015 |

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Three British scientists win 2016 Brain Prize

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CURRENTAFFAIRSCATEGORY Three British scientists have won a prestigious 2016 Gr

Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize (also known as B
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Prize) for giving vital insight how the human brain rememb
State Current Affairs learns and navigates.
International Affairs These scientists are
Timothy Bliss: He is a visiting worker at the Crick Institute
Business & Economy
London.
Banking Current Affairs Graham Collingridge: He is professor of neuroscience in anatomy at the University
Bristol. He is also head of the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto.
Science & Techonlogy
Richard Morris: He is a professor of neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh
Environment Current Affairs | Key highlights of their research
Bills and Acts Shown how neurons in the hippocampus collaborate and provide a basis
understanding how humans remember.
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Hippocampus is located deep in the centre of the brain. It is the brains learning po
Persons in News that enables us to store information.
Places in News Shown a phenomenon that is called long-term potentiatione. how the connect
between brain cells in the hippocampus can be strengthened through repea
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stimulation.
Sports Current Affairs Their research also provided better tools for understanding serious diseases such
Art & Culture in Current Affairs depression, epilepsy and drug addiction.

About Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize

Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize largest prize for neuroscience in
world.
It is bestowed upon one or more scientists who have distinguished themselves by
outstanding contribution to European neuroscience and who are still active
research.
Founded: 2011 by the Lundbeck Foundation of Denmark.
Prize carries: monetary award of Denmarks one million euro ($1,45,751).
Prize criteria: It is awarded to scientist of any nationality although, research for wh
they are nominated must be carried in Europe or in collaboration with Europ
researchers.
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Zika virus can cause severe neurological disorder: Study

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Researchers from France have found rst evidence t
mosquito-borne Zika virus might cause a severe neurolog
disorder called Guillain-Barr syndrome (GBS).
GBS is a rare condition in which the bodys immune syst
attacks a part of the nervous system that controls mus
strength leading to muscle weakness in the legs a
arms.Thesyndrome isalso be caused by bacterial infections
well as the dengue and chikungunya viruses transmitted by be vector Aedes aeg
mosquitoes (also host for Zika Virus).
Key facts
The study was carried out using blood samples from 42 patients who became ill
previous outbreak of virus.

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It was found that patients developed the neurological problems around six days a
Zika infection making the virus main culprit of severe neurological disorder.
However, the biological mechanism by which Zika virus triggers the Guillain-Ba
syndrome has yet to be identied.
Earlier in February 2016, World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a public he
emergency of international concern due to outbreak of Zika virus in Latin America a
also rising cases of microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome. It is observed that th
is20-fold increase in the number of GBS cases during the Zika outbreak.
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