Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 17 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson continue their discussion of protozoan parasites that cause diarrhea with a review of amebic dysentery caused by Entamoeba histolytica. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP017.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download ...

I arrived in Munich, Germany today for the start of a Symposium entitled 'Viral offense and immune defense'. It is organized by Collaborative Research Center 455 (in German, Sonderforschungsbereich, SFB 455); these are centers funded by the German Research Foundation that support collaborative research throughout the country. This meeting will ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, and Hamish Young On episode #101 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, Rich, Dickson, and Hamish review the three-dimensional structure of adenovirus, and the role of adenovirus type 36 in obesity. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV101.mp3"] Click the arrow above to ...

John Coffin, Professor of Genetics and Molecular Microbiology at Tufts University, studies the molecular biology and evolution of retroviruses. He wrote a commentary (A new virus for old diseases?) that accompanied the publication by Lombardi and colleagues of the finding of the new retrovirus XMRV in patients with chronic fatigue ...

Many virological techniques are based on the specificity of the antibody-antigen reaction. Examples in our virology toolbox include western blot analysis and ELISA. While very useful, these methods cannot be used to visualize viral proteins in infected cells or tissues. To do that we must turn to immunostaining. In direct ...