COPA silences STING

COPA - cancer outlier profile analysis

UNLABELLED Chromosomal translocations are common in cancer, and in some cases may be causal in the progression of the disease. Using microarrays, in which the expression of thousands of genes are simultaneously measured, could potentially allow one to detect recurrent translocations for a particular cancer type. Standard statistical tests, such as the t-test are not suited for detecting these t...

Snail silences suppressor

2 JEM Vol. 206, No. 1, 2009 Learning to tolerate ourselves On age 139, Duty et al. find self-reactive B cells in healthy adults that might harm their own body if given the chance. Checkpoints during B cell development ensure that immune cells won’t confuse the self for an intruder. At birth, many B cells express self-reactive receptors. Most of the...

Revisiting Security Claims of XLS and COPA

Ristenpart and Rogaway proposed XLS in 2007 which is a generic method to encrypt messages with incomplete last blocks. Later Andreeva et al., in 2013 proposed an authenticated encryption COPA which uses XLS while processing incomplete message blocks. Following the design of COPA, several other CAESAR candidates used the similar approach. Surprisingly in 2014, Nandi showed a three-query distingu...

Submission to the CAESAR competition AES - COPA

Sting fever

On August 17, The editors at USA Today had a tough call to make — whether to lead the paper with the fact that Elvis Presley has been dead for 25 years — or go with the story about the exotic virus sweeping west faster than wildfires. Anxiety won out over nostalgia, with Elvis relegated to the cover story in the Weekend section. 'West Nile outbreak expected to worsen,' read the top headline in ...