Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich are very enthusiastic about two studies that show how gut bacteria help viral invaders. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV154.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 154 (46 MB .mp3, 77 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss the promising results of a phase III trial of a malaria vaccine in African children. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP031.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP #31 (50 MB .mp3, 70 minutes). Links for this episode: First results of RTS,S/AS01 ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Stanley Maloy and Elio Schaechter. On episode #18 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Michael, Elio, and Stanley explain how to make the human intestinal commensal and benign laboratory bacterium Escherichia coli K-12 into an invasive organism, and the unearthing of century-old spores in New York City. ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich review an outbreak of rabies in arctic foxes and reindeer in Norway, and a prion that makes you go antiviral. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV153.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 153 (55 MB .mp3, 92 minutes). ...

The Blood XMRV Scientific Research Working Group was formed to design and carry out a study to determine whether xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) posed a threat to blood safety. Phase III results were published on Sept. 22, 2011 in Science. In an upcoming webinar study leaders Graham Simmons ...