My co-host for the netcast This Week in Virology, Dick Despommier, is featured in a Time magazine article entitled "Vertical Farming". As listeners of TWiV may know, Dick has developed the idea of constructing hydroponic farms in multistory urban buildings as a way of avoiding the food crunch that will ...

This Week in Virology #11 has been posted at www.microbe.tv/twiv. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV011.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #11 In this episode,  Vincent, Alan, and guest Jeremy Luban discuss why certain AIDS patients, called 'elite controllers' or 'long-term non-progressors', do not develop disease, why mosquitoes ...

The term emerging virus was coined by scientists in the 1990s to describe the agent of a new or previously unrecognized infection. The term implies that emerging viruses are new; however this assumption is incorrect. New virus infections have been emerging for thousands of years, at least since the rise ...

A few days ago I wrote about my particular reasons for maintaining a science blog. This issue resonates among scientists, as I received many comments from my colleagues, and discovered their writings on the topic. But those who read science blogs have a view too, and I came across a ...

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