Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Grant McFadden On episode #124 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Dickson, Alan, Rich, and Grant discuss a tanapoxvirus protein that inhibits tumor necrosis factor, purging tumors with myxoma virus, and destruction of the last known stocks of smallpox virus. [powerpress ...

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, ...