One of the most important procedures in virology is measuring the virus titer €“ the concentration of viruses in a sample. A widely used approach for determining the quantity of infectious virus is the plaque assay. In this technique, the spread of progeny viruses released by individually infected cells is ...

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich are enthralled by movies of vaccinia virus plaque formation, then consider how repulsion of superinfection virions leads to rapid virus spread, and a therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine. This episode is sponsored by Data Robotics Inc. Use the promotion ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 4 of the podcast "This Week in Parasitism", Vincent and Dick trace the life cycle of Trichinella spiralis in an infected host. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP004.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP is brought to you by the American ...

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