WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A U.S. biosecurity agency says it asked two scientific journals to censor the publication of research on a flu virus for safety reasons.
The US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity made the request to the journals Nature and Science to redact the publication of two papers by research teams who modified avian H5N1 influenza strains to create mutant viruses that can be transmitted efficiently between mammals.