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TWiV 156: Armed and targeted killer meta-analysis

1 Comment / This Week in Virology / By Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier Vincent, Rich, and Dickson review a meta-analysis on influenza vaccine, a killer virus in fungi that selects against RNAi, and the use of armed and targeted poxviruses for oncolytic virotherapy. Please help us by taking our listener survey. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV156.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click …

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How good is the influenza vaccine?

9 Comments / Information / By Vincent Racaniello

I hear from many readers that they routinely get the flu vaccine every year, yet they often contract the disease. I usually tell them that the vaccine is not perfect: it doesn’t protect everyone who gets it. Now we have the numbers to back up this statement, and they are not pretty. There have been …

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Ten seminal virologists

11 Comments / Uncategorized / By Vincent Racaniello

In my recent keynote address to the Brazilian Virology Society entitled The World of Viruses, I presented my list of ten seminal virologists. The idea to include such a discussion came from David Baltimore, who sent me the following note: Since you have been thinking about the history of virology, I thought I would share …

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TWiV 154 transcript

1 Comment / Information / By Vincent Racaniello

Thanks to TWiV listener Janet for transcribing episode #154, ‘Symbiotic safecrackers’. A pdf file of the transcript can be found on the post for that episode. A list of the episode transcripts is also available. TWiV transcripts are all listener-generated, for which we are extremely grateful. If you would like to transcribe an episode, please …

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TWiV 155: XXII Brazilian National Virology Meeting

5 Comments / This Week in Virology / By Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Grant McFadden, Eurico de Arruda Neto, Paulo Eduardo BrandÃ£o, Francisco Murilo Zerbini, and Janice Reis Ciacci Zanella Vincent, Grant, Eurico, Paulo, Francisco and Janice discuss their work on bocavirus, infectious bronchitis virus, begomoviruses, and circoviruses at the Brazilian Virology Society meeting in Atibaia, SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV155.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, …

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The World of Viruses

8 Comments / Basic virology, Information / By Vincent Racaniello

I was honored to present the Keynote Address at the XXII meeting of the Brazilian Virology Society on 23 October 2011. In my talk entitled The World of Viruses, given to an audience of 640 virologists, I shared my enthusiasm for these amazing microbes by discussing ten seminal virologists and ten compelling virology stories of …

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