Readers of this blog likely know how I feel about the importance of curiosity. It is what powers my ability to do research and to educate others about what I have learned. Roger Ebert agrees and takes it one step further: What I believe is that all clear-minded people should ...

On episode #227 of the science show This Week in Virology, the complete TWiV team reviews the controversial publication of the HeLa cell genome, a missing vial of Guanarito virus in a BSL-4 facility, and human infections with avian influenza H7N9 virus. You can find TWiV #227 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

Fourteen people in China have been infected with avian influenza H7N9 virus, leading to five deaths. This avian influenza virus has never been isolated from humans. Influenza A viruses with the H7 hemagglutinin protein circulate among birds, and some, such as H7N2, H7N3, and H7N7, have been previously found to ...

Clase #3, Genetica y Genomas, es una discusión de los siete diferentes tipos de genomas virales, y su paso hacia RNA mensajeros, seguido de una revisión del análisis moderno de genetica viral.  

David Bhella, Ph.D., a structural virologist at the MRC Centre for Virus Research in Glasgow, accepts the Peter Wildy Prize for Microbiology Education, awarded annually by the Society for General Microbiology for an outstanding contribution to microbiology education. In his laboratory David produces beautiful three-dimensional structures of viruses. In this ...