Norton Zinder made two important discoveries in the field of virology. While a Ph.D. student with Joshua Lederberg at the University of Wisconsin-Madison he found that viruses of bacteria (bacteriophages) could move genes from one host to another, a process called transduction. Later in his own laboratory at The Rockefeller ...

On This Week in Virology #170, hosts Alan, Rich, and Dickson discuss Edward Jenner's paper on cowpox vaccine, then move 200 years later to modern vaccines against norovirus, influenza H5N1, and more. You can find TWiV #170 at www.microbe.tv/twiv

Several panelists from the recent influenza H5N1 dual-use forum at the New York Academy of Sciences spoke with Brendan Maher of Nature News to discuss their position. Participants in this video include Laurie Garrett, Michael Osterholm, Ian Lipkin, Vincent Racaniello, and Veronique Kiermer. Update: The New York Academy of Sciences ...

On This Week in Virology #169, Michael Walsh and the TWiV team review epidemiology basics, including fatality ratios. You can find TWiV #169 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

Howard Markel, Professor of the history of medicine at the University of Michigan, in the New York Times: The censorship of influenza research will do little to prevent its misuse by evildoers,and it may well hinder our ability to stop influenza outbreaks, whether natural or otherwise, when they do occur. In ...