TWiV 150: Contaminated
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…
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The press concludes that arboviruses can be sexually transmitted
…a paper in Science indicating that they had found a retrovirus, XMRV, in the blood of 68 of 101 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. To this day whether or not…
Retroviruses and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
…presence of the gammaretrovirus XMRV. However, the authors did not detect XMRV in DNA or RNA extracted from peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 20 ALS patients. Human endogenous retroviruses are…
De-discovering pathogens: Viral contamination strikes again
…the retrovirus XMRV, initially implicated as the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome, and later shown to be a murine virus that contaminated human cells grown in mice? Another virus thought…
TWiV 165: The email zone
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…
TWiV 164: Six steps forward, four steps back
…feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app. Ten virology stories of 2011: XMRV, CFS, and prostate cancer (TWiV 119, 123, 136, 150) Influenza H5N1,…