On episode #41 of the science show This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson review medically important arthropods. You can find TWiP #41 at microbeworld.org/twip.

On episode #189 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent returns to the Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow and meets with postdocs to discuss their science and their careers. You can find TWiV #189 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

The second of two papers on avian influenza H5N1 virus that caused such a furor in the past year was published today in the journal Science. I have carefully read the paper by Fouchier and colleagues, and I assure you that it does not enable the production of a deadly ...

On episode #188 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent travels to Scotland to meet with members of the Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow to discuss their work on hepatitis C virus and jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus. You can find TWiV #188 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

Aaron J. Shatkin was well known for his work on reoviruses beginning in the 1960s in his laboratory at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in Nutley, NJ and then at Rutgers University. He was among the first to appreciate that virus particles contained many different enzymes, such as RNA ...