The mantle of world’s biggest virus has passed from Mimivirus to Megavirus. But in this case, size doesn’t matter. It’s the genes that these viruses share and do not share that make this story important. The discovery of Mimivirus in a French cooling tower amazed virologists. At 750 nanometers in diameter, it dwarfed all other …
by David Tuller Note: This account draws from interviews, a close reading of a fraction of the 4608 studies that pop up (as of today; yesterday it was 4606) on a PubMed search for “chronic fatigue syndrome,” and a review of many pages of government documents–in particular the minutes and testimony from meetings of the …
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In my recent keynote address to the Brazilian Virology Society entitled The World of Viruses, I presented my list of ten seminal virologists. The idea to include such a discussion came from David Baltimore, who sent me the following note: Since you have been thinking about the history of virology, I thought I would share …
This article was written for extra credit by a student in my recently concluded virology course. by Adriana Lopez The expression Happy as a Clam€ comes with new meaning as hepatitis A virus has been detected in clams, mussels, and oysters in markets for human consumption. As bivalve shellfish are excellent bio-accumulators of contaminants and chemicals, …
This week€™s addition to the virology toolbox was written by Chris Upton Sequence Searcher is a Java program that allows users to search for specific sequence motifs in protein or DNA sequences. For example, it can be used to identify restriction enzyme cleavage sites or find similar sequence patterns among multiple sequences. Most searches run …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 20 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson continue their discussion of nematodes with the whipworm Trichuris trichiura. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP020.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP is brought to you by the American Society for Microbiology at Microbeworld.org. Links …
