Role of EBNA2 and chromatin remodeling

TWiV explains the 1953 paper by Watson & Crick proposing a structure for DNA, and the role of Epstein-Barr virus in triggering the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus.

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• CDC revives debunked ‘link’ between childhood vaccines and autism (npr)
• A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid (Nature pdf)
• Three Papers, Three Lessons (Am J Resp Crit Care Med)
• Discovery of Double Helix (Crick Papers)
• Jim Watson was blinded by DNA (NY Times)
• What Rosalind Franklin contributed (Nature)
• EBV reprograms autoreactive B-cells in lupus (Sci Transl Med)
• EBV and the making of lupus (Sci Transl Med)
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Brianne – Virus snowflakes Kathy – When “Physic(k)s Lost Its ‘k’ and other Language Quarks Vincent – The Peripheral by William Gibson

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