Influenza viruses are unusual because we can become infected by
a similar virus almost every year during our lifetime and
occasionally there are worldwide pandemics that can cause many
fatalities. Why does our usually excellent immune system fail
us...
On the occasion of the 1993 dedication of Simonyi Hall, Phillip
Griffiths, then-Director of the Institute, spoke on
“Mathematics—From Servant to Partner” in which he described how the
relationship between mathematics and other disciplines had...
“There is no such thing as a unique scientific vision, any more
than there is a unique poetic vision. Science is a mosaic of
partial and conflicting visions. But there is one common element in
these visions. The common element is rebellion against...
“The critics feel passionately that they are right, and that
their viewpoints have been unfairly neglected by the establishment.
They strike a populist note. They bring into the public arena
technical claims that few can properly evaluate. They are...
Type A influenza viruses are the only influenza viruses known to
have caused human pandemics. The steady advance of one such virus,
influenza A(H5N1),
commonly known as avian flu, has brought with it fears of a new
pandemic. To date, no confirmed...
Discoveries in biology historically have been the province of
experimentalists. But advances during the past decade in sequencing
human and other genomes have brought forth a vast amount of data
that has led to the nascent but burgeoning field...
