The other night, I was in a restaurant with my family, and my kids' golf coach asked me what I did. I told him I was a Professor of Microbiology. Then he asked me, 'What is that virus that kills athletes....mersa...?' He was referring to multiple drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or ...

Recently there has been an outbreak of polio in Nigeria caused by vaccine-derived poliovirus, VDPV. This outbreak is not unusual except that it is the largest so far caused by VDPV. The first outbreak caused by VDPV was in the Dominican Republic/Haiti in 2001. But the Nigeria outbreak is of ...

I often lecture about polioviruses and poliovirus vaccines, and I am frequently asked why Salk or Sabin did not receive the Nobel Prize. I usually tell students because Salk did not discover anything new, but simply put together existing technologies in a productive way. Sabin once said that Salk didn't ...

When journal articles began to appear online in pdf form, I started to collect them on my computer's hard drive. In theory the pdfs can be accessed very quickly, as opposed to finding a printed article in a filing cabinet. To help find papers more quickly, I devised a filing ...

If you are thinking about a career in science, you should visit Bio Job Blog. The blog is written by Cliff Mintz of Bioinsights, Inc., a company that offers services related to bioscience and biotech careers, pharmaceutical and science jobs. Bio Job Blog is informative, sometimes amusing, and thought-provoking. Cliff ...