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 Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #57 (68 MB .mp3, 94 minutes) Partial episode transcript at The Learning [...]
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 Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #52 (51 MB .mp3, [...]
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 Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #39 (37 MB .mp3, 53 minutes) Links for this episode: Diagrams of virus structures Boston Globe [...]
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. Click [...]
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. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV [...]
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. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #14 (37 MB .mp3, 53 minutes) Links [...]
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. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #13 (34 MB .mp3, 49 minutes) Links for this episode: Obama’s science [...]
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. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #11 (62.6 MB [...]
