Is an effective treatment for the common cold at hand?
…cold. But the press has over reacted to this work – it was reported on the front page of the New York Times with the headline “Cure for the Common…
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FDA clears rotavirus vaccines
The US Food and Drug Administration has updated its recommendations on both Rotarix and RotaTeq, vaccines for the prevention of rotavirus disease in infants: Based on careful evaluation of a…
Transgenic mice susceptible to poliovirus
…with David Baltimore, I became interested in how the virus causes disease. There were no convenient animal models to study poliovirus pathogenesis, so I began to think about the cellular…
TWiV 82: Immunology in silico
…to better control of HIV-1 infection, and a mouse model for severe antibody-induced dengue virus disease. This episode is sponsored by Data Robotics Inc. Use the promotion code TWIVPOD to…
Viruses and obesity?
…field day with headlines like ‘Can a common cold virus really make you fat’?. Reactions on Twitter and blogs ranged from disbelief to outrage to ‘what will they think of…
Ebola in pigs – Nipah redux?
…not cause severe disease. In contrast, African strains of Ebola, such as Zaire and Sudan, are associated with high fatality rates. It is not known how Ebola-Reston infected the Phillipine…