Poliovirus
…developed in the 1950s that can effectively prevent the disease – inactivated poliovaccine (IPV, developed by Jonas Salk) and live, oral poliovaccine (OPV, developed by Albert Sabin). In 1988 the…
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TWiV #16: Virology in Saanen, HIV origins
Vincent and Jeremy recorded TWiV #16 in Saanen, Switzerland, at the 19th Challenge in Virology. They review the meeting, and discuss implications of a new HIV-1 sequence from 1960 for…
TWiV #24: Viroids
In episode #24 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Hamish Young discuss bacteriophages in viral vaccines, enteroviruses and diabetes, inhibition of Hendra and Nipah virus replication…
A Defense of Vaccines
…vaccines, as I do, you should listen to it anyway because his arguments are very compelling and well researched. Quackcast 30. Let’s Kill The Children or A Defense of Vaccines….
Adaptive immune defenses
…virus, we are talking about immune memory. Vaccines protect us against infection because of immune memory. The first adaptive response against a virus – called the primary response – often…
Do you want to know what is in your vaccines?
The recent discovery of contaminating porcine circovirus 1 DNA in Rotarix underscores the power of deep sequencing to ensure the purity of viral vaccines. The price of deep sequencing is…