Rewriting history

Editor, Advertiser: When elections are pending and incumbent politicians are faced with the prospects of being held accountable for their actions while in office, they and their disciples frequently spin the truth to fog reality. Unfortunately, ...

Local Books: 'Last Night' poems by Brush, 'American Pandemic'

Local books include poems by Thomas Brush, the third book in the colonial America series by Patricia Weenolsen, Nancy K. Bristow's history of the influenza epidemic's effect on Americans and a children's book about seal pups by Brenda Peterson and Robin Lindsey.

Influenza 'histone mimic' suppresses antiviral response

For a virus like influenza, the key to success isn't in overpowering the immune system, it's in tricking it. Scientists have now identified a novel mechanism by which influenza viruses hijack key regulators of the human body's normal antiviral response in order to slip by it undetected. The results they describe have major implications for our understanding of the biology of the seasonal ...

At the Jackson Homestead and Museum in Newton

Here's the latest from the Jackson Homestead and Museum.

Virus-tracking Software Taken Worldwide

Project allows new forms of client software to join genetic surveillance (Columbus, Ohio, May 22, 2012) – A biomedical informatics researcher who tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even wider use of the program around the world. Associate Professor Daniel Janies, Ph.D., an expert in computational genomics at the ...