Excellent description by Jonah Lehrer in "The Truth Wears Off" (The New Yorker) on the importance of confirming experimental findings in different laboratories: Before the effectiveness of a drug can be confirmed, it must be tested and tested again. Different scientists in different labs need to repeat the protocols and ...

Frederick Hayden, Professor of Medicine and Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, U.K., has focused on the use of antiviral agents to prevent and treat respiratory viral infections. His interests range from the use of in vitro assays to study viral susceptibility and antiviral mechanisms of action, to clinical ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit On episode #118 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener questions about vaccinia virus, fungal viruses, synthetic viruses, influenza vaccine, HeLa cells, multiplicity of infection, and much more. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV118.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click ...

My virology course at Columbia University, Biology W3310, has begun. This course, which I taught for the first time in 2009, is aimed at advanced undergraduates and will be taught at the Morningside Campus of Columbia University. Columbia University encompasses two principal campuses: the historic, neoclassical campus in the Morningside ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Seth Mnookin On episode #117 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Rich converse with Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus, about vaccines, autism, thimerosal, and a contagion of human unreason run wild. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV117.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click ...