I just returned from a 17-day, 3,000 km road trip with my family in Europe. When I travel I'm always on the lookout for virus-related information and I found some at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. This museum showcases science and technology - it has over 100,000 objects illustrating the ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson converse with Peter Hotez about global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical diseases. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP029.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP #29 (47 MB .mp3, 65 minutes). Links for this episode: Peter Hotez (Wikipedia) Hotez going to Baylor The ...

Hosts: Alan Dove and Rich Condit Alan and Rich tackle the discovery of bacteriophages, and treating influenza by calming the cytokine storm. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV145.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 145 (63 MB .mp3, 87 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, ...

Thirty years ago this month I did an experiment that set the course of my career, and provided an important step forward for animal virology. I showed that a cloned DNA copy of the poliovirus RNA genome is infectious in mammalian cells. When I arrived as a postdoctoral fellow in ...

I joined Dr. Kirsten Sanford on episode 106 of Dr. Kiki's Science Hour for a basic discussion about viruses. [powerpress url="http://twit.cachefly.net/dksh0106.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download DKSH #106 (31 MB .mp3, 64 minutes) Download video (272 MB .mp4)