Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 18 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson discuss the intracellular parasite Cryptosporidium, which causes diarrheal disease in most mammalian species. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP018.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP is brought to you by ...

This week€™s addition to the virology toolbox was written by Chris Upton (Disclaimer: BBB was developed in the Upton lab, so this is a biased review.) This will be a multi-part posting describing the key features of BBB. Base-By-Base (BBB) is a Java (platform independent) multiple sequence alignment (MSA) editor. ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit On episode #104 of the podcast This Week in Virology, the entire TWiV family reviews the latest ideas about colony collapse disorder of honeybees, and resurgence of monkeypox in Africa. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV104.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download ...

After my lecture on influenza pathogenesis and evolution at the Northeast Laboratory Conference 2010 in Portland, Maine, I was asked if it is necessary to receive the influenza vaccine every year. This question was precipitated by my statement that the 2010-11 trivalent influenza vaccine contains the same swine-origin H1N1 strain ...

This week€™s addition to the virology toolbox was written by Chris Upton The Jalview package: a multiple alignment editor. This software is primarily aimed at the alignment of protein sequences. Some of the key features are: It allows you to edit the alignment It has functions to display associated protein ...