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 ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Grant McFadden, Eurico de Arruda Neto, Paulo Eduardo Brandão, Francisco Murilo Zerbini, and Janice Reis Ciacci Zanella Vincent, Grant, Eurico, Paulo, Francisco and Janice discuss their work on bocavirus, infectious bronchitis virus, begomoviruses, and circoviruses at the Brazilian Virology Society meeting in Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV155.mp3"] Click ...

I was honored to present the Keynote Address at the XXII meeting of the Brazilian Virology Society on 23 October 2011. In my talk entitled The World of Viruses, given to an audience of 640 virologists, I shared my enthusiasm for these amazing microbes by discussing ten seminal virologists and ...