Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 9 of the podcast “This Week in Parasitism”, Vincent and Dickson move on to protozoan parasites with a discussion of the early history of malaria.. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP009.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP is brought to you by the American Society for …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit Vincent, Dickson, and Rich discuss multipotent progenitor bone marrow cells as a reservoir of HIV-1, integration of HHV-6 into telomeres, and dispersal of West Nile virus across the US by mosquitoes. This episode is sponsored by Data Robotics Inc. Use the promotion code VINCENT to receive $50 …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss ten compelling virology stories of 2009. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV064.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #64 (68 MB .mp3, 94 minutes) Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, or by …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 61 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, Vincent and Dick muse about the symbiotic bacterium, Wolbachia, that protects flies from viral infection, the origin of 2009 influenza H1N1 virus, and the lure of original antigenic sin. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV061.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click …
On episode #36 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, Vincent, Alan, Dick, and Hamish Young discuss the 2009 influenza pandemic, first 2009 H1N1 vaccine, hunting mosquitoes with midges, vaccine-associated polio in India, and adenoviruses. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV036.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #36 or subscribe in iTunes or byemail.
In an NYTimes Op-Ed article called “The Scary Caterpillar”, Jeffrey Lockwood wrote about potential use of a virus as a weapon of bioterrorism: What if a terrorist group announced that their operatives had introduced Rift Valley fever into the United States? This mosquito-borne disease would make West Nile virus look like a case of the …
