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Results The first step to show blindsight-like behavior by mice is to show that mice act blind after damage to V1, as humans do.20 Prior work with rodents did not observe substantial blindness after removal of V1, as these rodents could still detect high-contrast visual stimuli.63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,76,77 This raises the question of whether mice do not need V1 for normal vision or whether, like primates, they lose conscious vision after removal of V1 and use blindsight to maintain...

On March 22, Axios on HBO aired an interview it had conducted with Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, nearly a week earlier in which Cui reiterated his original Feb. 9 assertion that spreading coronavirus-related conspiracy theories would be “crazy” and “very harmful.” Cui was referring, albeit indirectly, to claims that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was developed in a military lab, perhaps in the United States, promoted by fellow Chinese officials.