by Gertrud U. Rey In 1998, a British doctor named Andrew Wakefield published a paper in the British journal The Lancet. In this paper, Wakefield implied that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine may cause developmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The paper received wide publicity, and ...

https://youtu.be/Bm3F-ULIWr8 Vincent travels to Microbiotix, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company in Worcester, MA to speak with four members of the company about their discovery and development of small molecule drugs that target serious infectious diseases. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 542 (40 MB .mp3, 65 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show ...

The decision by the US government to allow the resumption of experiments on aerosol transmission of avian influenza viruses has once again raised the hackles of some individuals who feel that the work is too risky. I disagree with their view on this work. Science reports that 'Controversial lab studies ...

The TWiVers present mitoviruses, which infect mitochondria, and how quasi-enveloped hepatitis A virus gets naked again. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 541 (54 MB .mp3, 89 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv

A listener of the science podcast This Week in Virology asked in 2010 whether there are viruses that infect mitochondria: Is there a virus that infects mitochondria? It€™s an organelle that has its own genetic material and polymerase, so it could replicate a virus. Does the mitochondrial double membrane and ...