On a special episode of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent and Stuart Firestein, author of Ignorance, discuss why ignorance €“ all of what we don't know, and even what we don't know we don't know €“ is the driving force of science. You can find this TWiV Special ...

On episode #212 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiVerers answer listener email about genetically modified chickens, a hendra vaccine for horses, online education, curing color blindness, Roosevelt and polio, Th cells, and much more. You can find TWiV #212 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

An outbreak of ten cases of poliomyelitis caused by circulating vaccine-derivied poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) is ongoing in Pakistan, centered in the Kila Abdulla/Pishin area of Baluchistan. The same virus strain has spread to the neighboring Kandahar province in Afghanistan, where two paralytic cases have been reported. Vaccine-derived poliomyelitis is ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its latest estimates on the number of new HIV infections in the United States: HIV remains a serious health problem, with an estimated 47,500 people becoming newly infected with the virus in the United States in 2010. Youth make up 7% of ...

Informative and sobering blog post from Sally Rockey, NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research, on 2011 grant application success rates. It's all summarized in this graph, taken from the NIH Data Book: The success rate, which is the number of funded grants divided by the number of applications, has dropped ...