Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener questions about lab procedures, prokaryotes, endogenous retroviruses, the iPad and teaching, prions, mimivirus, splitting water with viruses, and the polio outbreak in Tajikistan. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download TWiV #93 (76 MB .mp3, 105 minutes) Subscribe to TWiV (free) [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Karla Kirkegaard, and Marilyn Roosinck Vincent, Rich, Karla, and Marilyn recorded TWiV at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology in Bozeman, where they discussed plant viruses and how they make plants resistant to adverse conditions, and identification of dominant negative drug targets. [Audio clip: view full [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove Vincent and Alan converse about making published science accessible to everyone, global eradication of poliomyelitis, and whether a plant virus can cause disease in humans. This episode is sponsored by Data Robotics Inc. Use the promotion code TWIVPOD to receive $75-$500 off a Drobo. Win a free Drobo S! [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss ten compelling virology stories of 2009. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download TWiV #64 (68 MB .mp3, 94 minutes) Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, or by email. Ten virology stories [...]
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, Alan Dove, and Raul Rabadan Vincent, Alan, and Raul Rabadan converse about polio survivors in iron lungs, bocavirus, structure of mimivirus, and genome sequence analysis of influenza H1N1 viruses. 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 [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, and Alan Dove Vincent, Dick, and Alan talk about insect and human dengue virus host proteins, equine vaccine for WNV and EEEV, return of swine flu to humans, spread of polio in Africa, and listener email. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast [Audio [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier Guest: Saul Silverstein Vincent, Dick, and Saul talk about discoveries in virology that have had a major impact on the field. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Sem•i•nal (adjective): strongly influencing later developments. Note: There are two HPV vaccines on the market: Gardasil (quadrivalent, types 6, 11, 16, 18) and Cervarix (bivalent, [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Dickson was at Pop!Tech last week. Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon. US Geological Survey Disease Maps. CDC page on Hendra and Nipah viruses. The flying fox (Google image search). Vincent’s virology course. Vincent’s texbook is Principles of Virology, third edition, ASM Press (available December [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier [Audio clip: view full post to listen] polioeradication.org for the latest information on the global state of polio. Abstract of the Science article on engineering a new polio vaccine: “Virus attenuation by genome-scale changes in codon pair bias”. TWiV has been accepted into the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe in [...]
