Jeremy joins the TWiVeroids to tell the amazing story of how the function of the HIV-1 protein called Nef was discovered and found to promote infection by excluding the host protein SERINC from virus particles. You can find TWiV #409 at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen below. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV409.mp3"] Click arrow to play Download TWiV ...

I cannot let September pass without noting that 34 years ago this month, I arrived at Columbia University to start my laboratory to do research on poliovirus (pictured). That virus is no longer the sole object of our attention - we are wrapping up some work on poliovirus and our attention has ...

Four years after filming 'Threading the NEIDL', Vincent and Alan return to the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory BSL4 facility at Boston University where they speak with science writer David Quammen. You can find TWiV #408 at microbe.tv/twiv, or watch/listen here. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV408.mp3"] Click arrow to play Download TWiV 408 (42 MB .mp3, 69 min) Subscribe ...

by David Tuller, DrPH David Tuller is academic coordinator of the concurrent masters degree program in public health and journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. 'The PACE trial is a fraud.' Ever since Virology Blog posted my 14,000-essord investigation of the PACE trial last October, I've wanted to write ...

Last October, Virology Blog posted David Tuller's 14,000-word investigation of the many flaws of the PACE trial (link to article), which had reported that cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy could lead to "improvement" and recovery from ME/CFS. The first results, on "improvement," were published in The Lancet in ...