Host: Vincent Racaniello Vincent visited Scotch Plains – Fanwood High School and talked about viruses with high school biology students. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download TWiV #57 (68 MB .mp3, 94 minutes) Partial episode transcript at The Learning Blog Subscribe [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Scott Hammer, MD Vincent and Dr. Scott Hammer talk about different types of AIDS vaccines and how they are tested in clinical trials. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download TWiV #52 (51 MB .mp3, 71 minutes) [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, and Alan Dove Vincent, Dick, and Alan (with a cameo appearance by Rich Condit) review the world’s largest Phase III study of a complex HIV vaccine candidate in Thailand, immunization of salmon against infectious salmon anemia virus, and an outbreak of blueberry shock virus in Michigan. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Jennifer Drahos Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Jennifer Drahos tackle the Hendra virus disease outbreak in Australia, AIDS-like disease in wild chimps, return of polio type 2 in Nigeria, the influenza pandemic wave, and rabies in three countries. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier Vincent and Dick discuss virus structure and answer listener questions. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Links for this episode: Diagrams of virus structures Boston Globe article on Genzyme FDA warning letter to Genzyme (thanks Peter!) Public [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, and Alan Dove Vincent, Dick, and Alan review a new macaque model for HIV-1 infection, a possible role for Epstein-Barr virus in multiple sclerosis, accidental release of H5N1 by a vaccine company, resistance of frogs to virus infection, and extreme virology – the biggest and smallest viruses and viral genomes. [Audio [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Chris Upton Vincent and Chris Upton converse about hepatitis B in India, AIDS gene therapy with a ribozyme, antibodies that neutralize many influenza virus strains, killing tumors with vaccinia virus, myxoma virus of rabbits, and the Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Hepatitis B outbreak in [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove Vincent and Alan discuss a viral upper respiratory tract infection, transmission of H5N1 influenza virus, death of an HIV denialist, and the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] PLoS Pathogens paper on transmission of H5N1 influenza virus. Ebola outbreak [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove Vincent and Alan talk about President-elect Obama’s choices for his science advisors, SARS sensationalism, a new enteric picornavirus, and the top 10 virology stories of 2008. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Obama’s science advisors (Yahoo story) CDC RSS feed on influenza PNAS paper on a new enteric [...]
Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Alan Dove and Jeremy Luban Vincent, Alan, and Jeremy discuss why certain AIDS patients, called ‘elite controllers’ or ‘long-term non-progressors’, do not develop disease, why mosquitoes infected with Sindbis virus remain healthy, and the continuing outbreaks of norovirus gastroenteritis. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Immunity article on elite controllers. PNAS article [...]
