At the recent Brazilian Virology Society meeting George Rohrmann gave me a copy of his book, Baculovirus Molecular Biology. Baculoviruses are double-stranded DNA containing viruses that infect insects and other arthropods. Early in the first chapter of George's book I learned that baculoviruses may be present on uncooked cabbage leaves: ...in ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier Vincent, Rich, and Dickson review a meta-analysis on influenza vaccine, a killer virus in fungi that selects against RNAi, and the use of armed and targeted poxviruses for oncolytic virotherapy. Please help us by taking our listener survey. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV156.mp3"] Click the arrow ...

I hear from many readers that they routinely get the flu vaccine every year, yet they often contract the disease. I usually tell them that the vaccine is not perfect: it doesn't protect everyone who gets it. Now we have the numbers to back up this statement, and they are ...

In my recent keynote address to the Brazilian Virology Society entitled The World of Viruses, I presented my list of ten seminal virologists. The idea to include such a discussion came from David Baltimore, who sent me the following note: Since you have been thinking about the history of virology, ...

Thanks to TWiV listener Janet for transcribing episode #154, 'Symbiotic safecrackers'. A pdf file of the transcript can be found on the post for that episode. A list of the episode transcripts is also available. TWiV transcripts are all listener-generated, for which we are extremely grateful. If you would like ...