TWiV 320: Retroviruses and cranberries
On episode #320 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent speaks with John Coffin about his career studying retroviruses, including working with Howard Temin, endogenous retroviruses, XMRV, chronic…
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TWiV 64: Ten virology stories of 2009
…2009: Pandemic influenza: Swine-origin H1N1 virus (TWiV 36) XMRV, prostate cancer, and chronic fatigue syndrome (TWiV 50, 55) AIDS vaccine ‘success’ (TWiV 51) Colony collapse disorder (TWiV 46, 49) AIDS-like…
TWiV Special: A paradigm for pathogen de-discovery
…Ian review a multicenter blinded analysis which finds no association between chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis and XMRV or polytropic murine leukemia virus. You can find this TWiV Special at www.microbe.tv/twiv….
De-discovering pathogens: Viral contamination strikes again
…the retrovirus XMRV, initially implicated as the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome, and later shown to be a murine virus that contaminated human cells grown in mice? Another virus thought…
TWiV 129: We’ve got mail
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Rich answer listener questions about XMRV, yellow fever vaccine, virus-like particles, West Nile virus, amyotrophic lateral…
Virology toolbox: the western blot
…they will react with one or more of the viral proteins on the membrane. Such an assay is being used to estimate the extent of infection with the retrovirus XMRV…