TWiV #70: Hacking aphid behavior
…how a plant virus induces chemical signals in the host to maximize its spread, a new way to preserve viral vaccines at tropical temperatures, and the continuing story of XMRV…
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The press concludes that arboviruses can be sexually transmitted
…a paper in Science indicating that they had found a retrovirus, XMRV, in the blood of 68 of 101 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. To this day whether or not…
Retroviruses and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
…presence of the gammaretrovirus XMRV. However, the authors did not detect XMRV in DNA or RNA extracted from peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 20 ALS patients. Human endogenous retroviruses are…
Futures in Biotech 50: More biotech stories
…the role of the new virus XMRV in prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome, and prions as genetic elements in yeast. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/twit.cachefly.net/audio/fib/fib0050/fib0050.mp3 | titles=FiB 50] Download Futures in Biotech 50…
TWiV 164: Six steps forward, four steps back
…feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app. Ten virology stories of 2011: XMRV, CFS, and prostate cancer (TWiV 119, 123, 136, 150) Influenza H5N1,…
TWiV 165: The email zone
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan answer listener questions about XMRV, cytomegalovirus, latency, shingles vaccine, myxomavirus and rabbits, and more. Please…