virology blog
The purpose of virology blog is to teach you about viruses and viral disease. Your host, Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D., has studied viruses in the laboratory and has taught students about them for over 30 years. If you want to better understand complex topics such as influenza, emerging virus diseases, vaccines and antiviral drugs and more, learn from a virologist - at virology blog.
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May 16, 12 05:21PMOn episode #33 of the science show This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Michael, and Ivo review the requirement for segmented, filamentous bacteria for the induction of a specific type of hel per...
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May 13, 12 07:25AMOn episode #183 of the science show This Week in Virology, Connor Bamford joins the TWiV team to discuss bats as hosts for major mammalian paramyxoviruses. You can find TWiV #183 at www twiv...
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May 06, 12 07:01AMOn episode #182 of the science show This Week in Virology, Michael Imperiale joins the TWiV crew to discuss the recently published influenza H5N1 transmission paper and how it was viewed by the N SABB...
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May 03, 12 02:00AMOn episode #32 of the science show This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Elio and Michael speak with Rosie Redfield about her evidence that a bacterium cannot grow on arsenic instead of phosphorus. If y ou...
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May 02, 12 10:00AMOne of two papers on avian influenza H5N1 virus that caused such a furor in the past six months was published today in the journal Nature. I have read it, and I can assure you that the results do not enable...
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May 01, 12 08:07AMNearly four months ago I stood at the front of a crowded classroom at Columbia University and began teaching the third year of my undergraduate virology course. Twice a week we discussed the basic pri nciples...
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Apr 29, 12 06:37AMOn episode #181 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent, Rich, and Kathy discuss Cotia virus, a new poxvirus, Orf virus infections associated with handling goats and lamb, and the inna te...
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Apr 26, 12 07:31AMScience magazine will be conducting a live chat on whether some scientific research is too dangerous to publish, and how governments are getting involved in regulating such studies. It will be moderat ed...
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Apr 25, 12 06:42PMA dairy cow in California is the fourth known American case of mad cow disease, which is caused by prions, infectious agents composed only of protein (the story hit the press the day after my lec ture...
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Apr 22, 12 06:53AMOn episode #180 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Rich review association of an interferon-induced protein with severe influenza, and stabilization of HCV RNA by a mic roRNA...
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