Virology
A Nobel for autophagy, and the importance of fundamental research
By Vincent Racaniello
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 ...
TWiV 409: A Nef is enough
By Vincent Racaniello
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 ...
Three countries endemic for poliovirus
By Vincent Racaniello
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 ...
TWiV 408: Boston Quammens
By Vincent Racaniello
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 ...
Trial By Error, Continued: The Real Data
By Vincent Racaniello
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 ...
