On episode #251 of the science show This Week in Virology, the complete TWiV crew reviews work on MERS-coronavirus, including serological studies in camels, production of an infectious DNA clone, and identification of an interferon antagonist. You can find TWiV #251 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

This episode of TWiM was recorded at the 53rd ICAAC in Denver, Colorado, where Michael Schmidt and I spoke with James Gern about rhinoviruses, and James Johnson about extra-intestinal pathogenic E. coli. You can find TWiM #64 at microbeworld.org, or view the video below.

Qiagen spin column at right. The silica layer is white. The spin column is placed in the microcentrifuge tube, left, to remove liquids and elute nucleic acids. Do you remember the retrovirus XMRV, initially implicated as the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome, and later shown to be a murine virus ...

On episode #250 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent and Robert Garcea talked about polyomaviruses. This episode was recorded at the 53rd ICAAC in Denver, Colorado. You can find TWiV #250 at www.microbe.tv/twiv, or view the video below.

When you purchase chicken eggs at the market, they usually have white or brown shells. But some breeds of chicken produce blue or green eggs. The blue color is caused by insertion of a retrovirus into the chicken genome, which activates a gene involved in the production of blue eggs. ...