1. Some parasitic wasps lay eggs in caterpillars, where they mature into adult wasps. The wasp eggs contain a virus, encoded in the wasp genome, which prevents the caterpillar from rejecting the eggs. 2. There are a million virus particles per milliliter of seawater €“ for a global total of ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Lynn Enquist On episode 54 of the podcast "This Week in Virology", Vincent speaks with Lynn Enquist about his career in virology, moving from academia to industry and back. Along the way Prof. Enquist did pioneering research on bacteriophage, participated in the birth of recombinant DNA ...

Because of concerns about the safety and efficacy of the new vaccine against 2009 H1N1 influenza (swine flu) Marc Pelletier, PhD from Futures in Biotech and I teamed up to record a public service announcement to encourage vaccination. This announcement addresses safety and side effects, which are expected to be ...

A retrovirus that has been implicated in prostate cancer has now been found in the blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. What is this virus and where did it come from? Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a disease characterized by fatigue and chronic inflammation that can last years and ...

All the evidence I've seen so far points to a poor uptake of the influenza 2009 H1N1 vaccine in the United States. This is not good news - inadequate immunization means more infections and more deaths. A few weeks ago I asked a class of about 50 students in a ...