Three virologists have been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Harald zur Hausen was recognized for discovering human papilloma virus (HPV), while Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi were acknowledged for first isolating human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Zur Hausen isolated HPV type 16 in 1983 from women with cervical ...

This Week in Virology episode #2 has been posted at twiv.tv. In this episode Vincent and Dick discuss the current global state of polio. <span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span>&lt;span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;lt;span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; ...

The first episode of my new netcast, This Week in Virology - TWiV - has been posted. It's at www.microbe.tv/twiv. <span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span>&lt;span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;lt;span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" ...

Stay tuned for the first episode of my new podcast,  'This Week in Virology' - I'll post the information here within the next few days.

Clive Thompson (Wired article here) gets it right on why kids generally enjoy learning science: "One of the reasons kids get bored by science is that too many teachers present it as a fusty collection of facts for memorization. This is precisely wrong. Science isn't about facts. It's about the ...