We have just completed lecture #13 in my Columbia University virology course, which means that we are now at the halfway mark. In the first eleven lectures we covered basic aspects of viral replication in cell culture, including virus entry into cells, genome replication, and assembly. The remainder of the course is concerned with viral …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit On episode #123 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Rich talk about XMRV integration sites in prostate tumor DNA, the decline effect and scientific method, and the first virus of Caenorhabditis nematodes. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV123.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #123 …
TWiV 123: Contaminated prostates, absolute truth, and bleached worms Read More »
Integration of retroviral DNA into the cellular genome is essential for the production of new infectious particles. A strong argument that the novel human retrovirus XMRV is not a laboratory contaminant is the finding that viral DNA is integrated in chromosomal DNA of prostate tumors. Nucleotide sequence analyses of 14 integration sites in prostate tumor DNAs …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Welkin Johnson On episode #122 of the podcast This Week in Virology, the complete TWiV crew teams up with Welkin Johnson to explore the other AIDS epidemic, infection of monkeys with simian immunodeficiency virus, and its restriction by the cellular protein TRIM5. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV122.mp3″] Click the arrow …
TWiV 122: More fun than a monkey full of viruses Read More »
From the New York Times: Dr. Edwin D. Kilbourne, a medical researcher who figured out how to outwit fast-evolving flu germs, developing a new vaccine each year by intermingling genes of different disease strains, died Monday in Branford, Conn. He was 90. I’m saddened by Dr. Kilbourne’s passing – he was the Chairman of the Department …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Katze, Michael Gale, Deborah Fuller, and Shawn Iadonato Episode #121 of the podcast This Week in Virology is a conversation about careers in virology, systems biology, innate immunity, and antiviral research recorded at the University of Washington in Seattle. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV121.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download …
