TWiV 172: Two can be as bad as one
On episode #172 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Kathy discuss how a virus may cause disease distant from its replication site, then review a day in…
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A mad cow in America
…press the day after my lecture on this type of illness). Unlike viruses, prions have no nucleic acid and no protective coat. But virologists know all about them because, as…
From a food blender to real-time fluorescent imaging
…has since been upheld numerous times*, the most recent by a modern-day experiment using real-time fluorescence. Hershey and Chase made preparations of the tailed bacteriophage T2 with the viral proteins…
Headline writers: Please take a virology course
Yesterday Denise Grady wrote in the New York Times about the end of the moratorium on influenza H5N1 virus research. The story headline read: Research to resume on modified, deadlier…
A saga of HeLa cells
…encephalomyocarditis virus. The cells could be infected with all these viruses, develop cytopathic effects, and form plaques, allowing titration of virus titers. They have been an essential part of my…
TWiV 264: We should do an all-email show some day
On episode #264 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiVites read listener questions and comments about public engagement in science, vaccines, RNAi, reprogramming CD8 cells to treat…