On episode #2 of This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Cliff, and Michael review a fatal laboratory acquired Yersinia pestis infection, and how gut bacteria control body weight and metabolic activity.. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM002.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiM #2 (52 MB .mp3, 75 minutes). Subscribe ...

We have just completed lecture #13 in my Columbia University virology course, which means that we are now at the halfway mark. In the first eleven lectures we covered basic aspects of viral replication in cell culture, including virus entry into cells, genome replication, and assembly. The remainder of the ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit On episode #123 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Rich talk about XMRV integration sites in prostate tumor DNA, the decline effect and scientific method, and the first virus of Caenorhabditis nematodes. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV123.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 23 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson review the life cycle and pathogenesis of the world's most unusual parasite, Strongyloides stercoralis. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP023.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP #23 (74 MB .mp3, ...

Integration of retroviral DNA into the cellular genome is essential for the production of new infectious particles. A strong argument that the novel human retrovirus XMRV is not a laboratory contaminant is the finding that viral DNA is integrated in chromosomal DNA of prostate tumors. Nucleotide sequence analyses of 14 integration ...