Sharon and Scott join the TWiV team to talk about their work on dengue antibody-dependent enhancement of Zika virus infection, and identifying the virus in mosquitoes from Miami. You can find TWiV #410 at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen below. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV410.mp3"] Click arrow to play Download TWiV 410 (73 MB .mp3, 121 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email Become ...

Yoshinori Ohsumi has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on autophagy, a process of eukaryotic cells for degrading and recycling cellular components. Because of his research, we now understand the importance of autophagy in health and human disease. It is another example of ...

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 ...