Thirty years ago this month I did an experiment that set the course of my career, and provided an important step forward for animal virology. I showed that a cloned DNA copy of the poliovirus RNA genome is infectious in mammalian cells. When I arrived as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of David Baltimore …
I joined Dr. Kirsten Sanford on episode 106 of Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour for a basic discussion about viruses. [powerpress url=”http://twit.cachefly.net/dksh0106.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download DKSH #106 (31 MB .mp3, 64 minutes) Download video (272 MB .mp4)
Eugenie Samuel Reich speculates about the effect on US science should the debt ceiling not be raised by 2 August 2011: Republicans have made it clear that they will not cut defence spending, and Democrats are keen to protect social security and health-care programmes such as Medicare and Medicaid. Thus, the cuts are likely to …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove Vincent, Rich, and Alan discuss live blogging of scientific meetings, the current outbreak of Hendra virus is Australia, and using zinc finger nucleases to make HIV-resistant CD4 cells. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV144.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 144 (75 MB .mp3, 104 minutes). …
The Chilean salmon farming industry has been severely affected by disease caused by infectious salmon anemia virus. Salmon eggs shipped from Norway to Chile in 2007 are the cause of the outbreak (New York Times): A virus that has killed millions of salmon in Chile and ravaged the fish farming industry there was probably brought …
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Margaret McFall-Ngai, and Elio Schaechter On episode #12 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Margaret, Michael and Elio review the use of photothermal nanoblades to dissect the Burkholderia intracellular life cycle, and manipulation of chromosomes in vivo for genome-wide codon replacement in E. coli. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM012.mp3″] Click the arrow …
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