MRSA is NOT a virus
…virus. This incident reinforces the fact that science education is not what it should be in the U.S. My son’s seventh grade science textbook does have a chapter on viruses,…
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Should graduate students blog?
…And the more interesting and relevant your comments on the pressing issues of the day, the more you should keep them strictly confined to the kinds of everyday offline intellectual…
Jonas Salk’s Poliovaccine
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the licensing of the first vaccine against poliomyelitis, the inactivated poliovaccine (IPV) developed by Jonas Salk. On 12 April 1955, the results of the…
100th anniversary of the isolation of poliovirus
…paralytic disease in man. They made the modest suggestion that poliomyelitis might be caused by an invisible virus, an opinion soon confirmed by other experiments. The identification of poliovirus was…
Science and the social web
…or a gold mine. If you choose to follow individuals who are interested in science, you will, in the course of a day, find tweets with links to interesting science…
New influenza antiviral drugs
…anti-influenza virus drugs will be developed? So far we have three antiviral drugs against influenza viruses. Most H3N2 strains are resistant to rimantidine, which targets the viral M2 ion channel,…