Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Raul Andino Vincent meets up with Raul Andino in San Francisco to discuss the RNAi-based antiviral defense system of Drosophila, the fruit fly, and how it is antagonized by viruses. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV138.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #138 (53 MB .mp3, ...

Visualization of M13 virus (orange strand to the right) using the surface proteins (purple strands) to grab the carbon nanotubes and put them in order. Image credit: Matt Klug, Biomolecular Materials Group, MIT. This article was written for extra credit by a student in my recently concluded virology course. by Ian ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cliff Mintz, and Michael Schmidt. On episode #9 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Cliff, Elio, and Michael review the outbreak of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome in Germany caused by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM009.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, Amit Kapoor, and Ian Lipkin The TWiV team speaks with Amit Kapoor and Ian Lipkin about how they discovered canine hepacivirus, and its implications for the origin and evolution of hepatitis C virus. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV137.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Stephen Goff Retrovirologist Stephen Goff joins Vincent, Rich, and Alan for a discussion of recent papers on the retrovirus XMRV and its association with chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV136.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #136 ...