Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Arturo Casadevall, Stuart Levy, and David Livermore. Vincent, Michael, Arturo, Stuart, and David converse about antimicrobial resistance and why most fungi do not cause disease, at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM016.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to ...

Science Live, the weekly chat at Science magazine, will tackle XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome on Thursday, 22 September. From the Science Live webpage: Two years ago, Science published a paper suggesting that a mouse retrovirus called XMRV might be involved in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a debilitating disease with ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Mark Pallansch, and Trine Tsouderos Vincent, Rich, Mark, and Trine discuss science and medicine in journalism and the eradication of poliovirus at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV149.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV ...

At the Harvard Virology Program Retreat for 2011, the students ran a viral dessert contest. I posted some of the images at VirusTalk. Have a look at them - they are truly delicious.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson have a broad-ranging conversation with Charles Knirsch of Pfizer, Inc. about how public-private partnerships can function to control and eliminate infectious diseases. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP030.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP #30 (61 MB .mp3, 85 minutes). Links for this episode: ...