What we are not afraid to say about Ebola virus
…discussion of Ebola virus mutation: But viruses like Ebola are notoriously sloppy in replicating, meaning the virus entering one person may be genetically different from the virus entering the next….
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What does transfection mean?
…dynamic means of communication that continually evolves and provides words with new meanings, then this incorrect use of transfection probably does not bother you. But scientists must be precise in…
David Tuller responds to the PACE investigators
…year from the Institute of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health have presented portraits of the disease starkly at odds with the PACE framework and approach. I will ignore…
Exaptation: A cell enzyme becomes a viral capsid protein
…nucleocapsid. Thirty years after the discovery of TTV1, the capsid proteins remained ORFans – meaning that they had no sequence homology with viral or cellular proteins. Recently a more sensitive…
Trial By Error, Continued: Questions for Dr. White and his PACE Colleagues
…entry criteria, meaning participants could be fatigued or physically disabled enough for entry but “recovered” at the same time. Thirteen percent of the sample was already “within normal range” on…
TWiV 381: Add viruses and Zimmer
On episode #381 of the science show This Week in Virology, Carl Zimmer joins the TWiV team to talk about his career in science writing, the real meaning of copy-paste,…