TWiV #70: Hacking aphid behavior
…how a plant virus induces chemical signals in the host to maximize its spread, a new way to preserve viral vaccines at tropical temperatures, and the continuing story of XMRV…
…how a plant virus induces chemical signals in the host to maximize its spread, a new way to preserve viral vaccines at tropical temperatures, and the continuing story of XMRV…
…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…
…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…
…2009: Pandemic influenza: Swine-origin H1N1 virus (TWiV 36) XMRV, prostate cancer, and chronic fatigue syndrome (TWiV 50, 55) AIDS vaccine ‘success’ (TWiV 51) Colony collapse disorder (TWiV 46, 49) AIDS-like…
…the role of the new virus XMRV in prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome, and prions as genetic elements in yeast. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/twit.cachefly.net/audio/fib/fib0050/fib0050.mp3 | titles=FiB 50] Download Futures in Biotech 50…
…they will react with one or more of the viral proteins on the membrane. Such an assay is being used to estimate the extent of infection with the retrovirus XMRV…