Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Marc Pelletier This Week in Virology and Futures in Biotech join together in a science mashup to talk about a virophage at the origin of DNA transposons, and unintended spread of a recombinant retrovirus. Click the arrow above to play, or right click to download TWiV #125 (59 MB [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich talk about XMRV integration sites in prostate tumor DNA, the decline effect and scientific method, and the first virus of Caenorhabditis nematodes. Click the arrow above to play, or rightight click to download TWiV #123 (67 MB .mp3, 93 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich revisit ten compelling virology stories of 2010. Click the arrow above to play, or right click to download TWiV #114 (64 MB .mp3, 88 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, or by email, or listen on your mobile device with Stitcher Radio. [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Alan Rein Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss the retrovirus XMRV with retrovirologist Alan Rein of the National Cancer Institute. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #113 (55 MB .mp3, 76 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, or by email, [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich review eradication of rinderpest, endogenous hepatitis B virus in the zebra finch genome, and identification of the cell receptor for an extinct retrovirus. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #105 (66 MB .mp3, 92 minutes) [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and David Baltimore Vincent, Alan, and Rich celebrate the 100th episode of TWiV by talking about viruses with Nobel Laureate David Baltimore. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #100 (68 MB .mp3, 94 minutes) Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich review the finding of murine leukemia virus-related sequences in the blood of CFS patients and healthy donors, laboratory inventories for wild poliovirus containment, weaving high-performance viral batteries into fabric for the military, and a case of human rabies in Indiana. Click the arrow [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Ila Singh Vincent, Alan, and Rich speak with Ila Singh about the new human retrovirus XMRV, and how her laboratory is studying its association with prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #94 (56 MB .mp3, 77 minutes) Subscribe [...]
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. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #93 (76 MB .mp3, 105 minutes) Subscribe to [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Welkin Johnson Vincent, Dickson, Alan, Rich and Welkin discuss the nature, origin, and evolution of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), and the recent finding of endogenous filovirus genomes in mammals. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #91 (64 MB .mp3, 89 minutes) Subscribe [...]