Can India remain polio-free?
…to Shahnaz Wazir Ali, the Pakistani Prime Minister’s focal person for polio, there is little risk for export of the virus from Pakistan: The likeliness of polio virus being exported…
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Viruses at Artomatic 2012
While on a business trip to Washington DC I took time to visit Artomatic 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. Artomatic is a month-long festival of over 1,000 artists who create visual…
Microbe art
…Wall Stuff (cross-stitched microbes) Virus mugs – Thefty Wooden tree viruses – BuenoMarket Viral gift wrap – The Wrap Up Project Microbes Rule – by Mark O. Martin The Vexed…
Origin of the H5N1 storm
…ferrets died after airborne infection with the mutant A/H5N1 viruses. The second version better represents the data. The first version is incorrect as stated because the virus is virulent only…
A DNA virus with the capsid of an RNA virus
…organisms co-exist. Viruses like RDHV could have emerged during the transition from an RNA to a DNA world, when a new DNA virus captured the gene encoding an RNA virus…
Thirty years in my laboratory at Columbia University
…including how the virus attaches to its cellular receptor, regulation of viral tissue tropism, and the basis for attenuation of the Sabin vaccine strains. The finding that poliovirus tropism is…