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 ...

Virologists rely on the research literature not only to publish their findings, but to keep up with what other virologists are doing. PubMed, a database that provides citations from many life sciences journals and related resources, provides an easy way to search the entire biomedical literature and is used by ...

I came across an article in Saukvalley.com about VHSV, or viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus, which causes disease in fish. I have never worked on viruses of fish, but they're fascinating, and economically very, very important. So let's have a look at what this article is about. VHSV causes a very ...

Transmission of wild poliovirus continues in four countries: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan. From January 2006 to February 2007, the number of polio cases increased in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Poliovirus continues to circulate in these countries because insufficent numbers of infants receive three doses of oral polio vaccine - 69% ...