What would you conclude if you read the following headlines: Man sexually transmits insect-borne disease to wife (Fox News); Zika virus: First insect borne STD? (HuffPo); Scientist gives insect-borne disease to wife during sex (New York Magazine), and A scientist contracts a mosquito-borne virus and gives it to his wife ...

Glenn Rall, a virologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, sent me the following note: Baruch S. Blumberg, Nobel Laureate in 1976 for discovery of Hepatitis B (and the eventual development of the vaccine, which probably has saved hundreds of thousands of lives since its introduction), died this past Tuesday (4/5/11).  ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Welkin Johnson Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Welkin review how a virus regulates the severity of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, virophage control of antarctic algal host-virus dynamics, and human metapneumovirus infection in gorillas. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV128.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Margaret McFall-Ngai, Cliff Mintz, and Michael Schmidt. On episode #4 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Cliff, Margaret, and Michael review foodborne bacterial illness in the context of outbreaks associated with cantaloupes and Lebanon bologna. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM004.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right click ...

This week€™s addition to the virology toolbox was written by Chris Upton Sequence Searcher is a Java program that allows users to search for specific sequence motifs in protein or DNA sequences. For example, it can be used to identify restriction enzyme cleavage sites or find similar sequence patterns among ...