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Letter: For the record – 12 January 2019

Published 9 January 2019

• When inhibitory cells were implanted into epileptic rats and then turned off, these rats had nearly as many seizures as those with no implants (22/29 December 2018, p 8).

• It is rolling resistance in tyres that accounts for between 5 and 30 per cent of vehicles’ fuel consumption (8 December 2018, p 19).

Issue no. 3212 published 12 January 2019

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