XMRV

TWiV 165: The email zone

January 8, 2012

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan answer listener questions about XMRV, cytomegalovirus, latency, shingles vaccine, myxomavirus and rabbits, and more. Please help us by taking our listener survey. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 165 (61 MB .mp3, 102 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV [...]

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TWiV 164: Six steps forward, four steps back

January 1, 2012

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove Vincent, Alan, and Rich review ten compelling virology stories of 2011. Please help us by taking our listener survey. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 164 (60 MB .mp3, 99 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the [...]

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TWiV 150: Contaminated

September 25, 2011

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier Vincent, Dickson, and Rich meant to do an all-email episode, but first they review results of the Blood XMRV Scientific Research Working Group, and partial retraction of the paper associating XMRV with chronic fatigue syndrome. With this episode TWiV is three years old. Click the arrow above to play, [...]

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TWiV 136: Exit XMRV

June 5, 2011

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Stephen Goff Retrovirologist Stephen Goff joins Vincent, Rich, and Alan for a discussion of recent papers on the retrovirus XMRV and its association with chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #136 (61 MB .mp3, 84 minutes). Subscribe to [...]

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TWiV 129: We’ve got mail

April 17, 2011

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Rich answer listener questions about XMRV, yellow fever vaccine, virus-like particles, West Nile virus, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and human endogenous retroviruses, multiplicity of infection, and how to make a poxvirus. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #129 [...]

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TWiV 123: Contaminated prostates, absolute truth, and bleached worms

March 6, 2011

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 [...]

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TWiV 114: Ten out of ’10

January 2, 2011

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. [...]

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TWiV 113: Alan Rein on XMRV

December 26, 2010

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, [...]

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TWiV 99: ICAAC Boston 2010

September 19, 2010

Host: Vincent Racaniello On episode 99 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent tours the 50th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in Boston, speaking with exhibitors and visitors, including Professors Derek Smith, Michael Schmidt, Frederick Hayden, and Myra McClure. Many thanks to Chris Condayan and Ray Ortega of the American Society for [...]

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TWiV 98: Murine musings, electric shirts, and rabid pathologists

September 12, 2010

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 [...]

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