TagsTagsAt the New York Times, Carl Zimmer has a fascinating — and frightening — article on the evolution of the swine flu virus, and the efforts of virologists to unlock its secrets: The 10 Genes of a Human Flu Virus, Furiously Evolving. The current outbreak shows how complex and mysterious ...
Last weekend in a post about swine flu, I remarked that the appearance of this virus is a perfect example of rapid evolution in action. Amazingly, this triggered a couple of emails from people denying that viruses evolve, and one comment from a reader who said I was “becoming an ...
According to the White House, the Department of Health and Human Services is going to issue a “public health emergency” about the outbreak of swine flu...
Genetic researchers are making ground-breaking—and possibly life-saving—discoveries about the 1918 flu pandemic. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly — a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia. ... Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin ...