Vincent, Rich and Kathy speak with Stephen Russell about his career and his work on oncolytic virotherapy €“ using viruses to treat cancers. Recorded before an audience at ASV 2016 at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. You can find TWiV #395 at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen/view below. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV395.mp3"] Click arrow to play Download TWiV 395 (44 MB .mp3, 60 min) ...

Vincent and Alan speak with Erica Ollmann Saphire about her career and her work on understanding the functions of proteins of Ebolaviruses, Marburg virus, and other hemorrhagic fever viruses, at ASM Microbe 2016 in Boston, MA. You can find TWiV #394 at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen or watch the video below. ...

When we decided to work on Zika virus in February 2016, experiments in mice were certainly part of our plans. However, one does not simply walk into a mouse facility and start inoculating animals with viruses! Carrying out animal experiments requires approval of a detailed protocol by the Institutional Animal Care and ...

In this new video from Virus Watch, I tackle the thorny question of whether viruses are alive. Plenty of people have offered their opinon on this question. The results of a poll I've had here on virology blog shows that people are divided on the answer. But I'm sure I ...

A major new feature of the fourth edition of Principles of Virology is the inclusion of 26 video interviews with leading scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of virology. For the chapter on Transformation and Oncogenesis, Vincent spoke with Nobel Laureate J. Michael Biship, of the University of California, San Francisco, about his career and ...