Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, and Alan Dove On episode #52 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, 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 …
Influenza A viruses tend to garner most of the attention, but let’s not forget that there are two other virus types, B and C. The enveloped influenza A virions have three membrane proteins (HA, NA, M2), a matrix protein (M1) just below the lipid bilayer, a ribonucleoprotein core (consisting of 8 viral RNA segments and …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Jason Rodriguez On episode #50 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, Vincent and Jason review influenza 2009 H1N1 vaccine trials and protection against the virus conferred by the 1976 swine flu vaccine, then move on to a virus called XMRV and its possible role in prostate cancer. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV050.mp3″] Click …
During a discussion about blogging on the Coast to Coast Bio Podcast, it was suggested that science professors should spend more time writing about their research – by explaining what problems they are trying to solve, how they approach them, and why they are interesting. My goal here at virology blog is mainly to teach …
Would influenza virus be the same pathogen if it could not undergo reassortment of its segmented RNA genome? This is the question being asked in the wake of the development of a method to prevent the free assortment of influenza viral RNAs. The process of influenza virus replication includes the incorporation of eight viral RNAs …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier On episode 49 of the podcast ‘This Week in Virology”, Vincent and Dick continue Virology 101 with a discussion of the seven different types of viral genomes, and how to use the pathway to mRNA to understand viral replication. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV049.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click …
