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 ...

A new article in the journal PLoS One (link) clearly shows that there is no association between measles virus vaccine and autism.  The growing public concern over vaccination stems in part from the belief that the measles virus vaccine, given together with vaccines for mumps and rubella (MMR vaccine), causes ...