Archives

All Articles

• TWiV 97: California virology
• TWiV 96: Making viral DNA
• TWiV 95: Does a virus shift in the woods?
• XMRV not detected in seminal plasma
• H1N1 pandemic is over
• TWiP 14: Leishmania
• Viral bioinformatics: Dotplot
• TWiV 94: XMRV with Dr. Ila Singh
• Inside the outbreaks
• Robert M. Chanock, MD, 1924-2010
• TWiV 93: Our infectious inbox
• Viral bioinformatics: Introduction + Homology
• TWiV 92: Live at ASV in Bozeman
• The virus and the virion
• TWiV 91: You’re an ERVous wreck
• Detection of antigens or antibodies by ELISA
• TWiP 13: Toxoplasmosis
• Reovirus infection of farmed salmon
• TWiV 90: Guano happens
• Virology toolbox: the western blot
• TWiV 89: Where do viruses vacation?
• Publication of XMRV papers should not be blocked
• TWiV 88: A bug fix, an AIDS treatment, and an undead retrovirus
• Microbiology books for kids
• FDA and NIH confirm WPI XMRV findings
• TWiV 87: A PHIREside chat with Professor Graham Hatfull
• TWiP 12: Toxoplasma gondii
• Secondary changes allow spread of oseltamivir resistant influenza virus
• TWiV 86: Dark matter with Dr. Eric Delwart
• A new target for hepatitis C virus
• TWiV 85: Hepatitis C virus with Professor Michael Gale
• XMRV, prostate cancer, and chronic fatigue syndrome
• TWiP 11: One times three million
• Viral size matters
• TWiV 84: Gators go viral
• Headless HA: Universal influenza vaccine?
• Futures in Biotech 60: Do you come to this cave often?
• TWiV 83: An hour with Dr. Kiki
• Virology lecture #25: West Nile Story
• TWiP 10: Plasmodium life cycle
• XMRV in human respiratory tract
• Google Flu Trends is not accurate
• Virology lecture #24: Unusual infectious agents
• TWiV 82: Immunology in silico
• FDA clears rotavirus vaccines
• Virology lecture #23: Emerging viruses
• Recombination between cellular and viral RNA produces a pathogenic virus
• Virology lecture #22: Evolution
• TWiV 81: Be a virus, see the world
• Porcine circovirus DNA found in RotaTeq
• XMRV at Cold Spring Harbor
• Virology lecture #21: Antivirals
• TWiP 9: Mala aria
• Virology lecture #20: Vaccines
• TWiV 80: How much X could a woodchuck chuck?
• Can a plant virus make you sick?
• Virology lecture #19: Transformation and oncogenesis
• A plant virus that switched to vertebrates
• TWiV #79: Red hot chili viruses
• Virology lecture #18: HIV pathogenesis
• Inhibition of XMRV by a weapon of mass deamination
• Virology lecture #17: Acute infections
• Futures in Biotech 58: The Vertical Farm
• TWiV #78: Darwin gets weird
• Virology lecture #16: Persistent infections
• Poliovirus vaccine, SV40, and human cancer
• TWiV 77: Non-nuclear proliferation
• Poliovirus vaccine safety
• Inhibitors of XMRV
• Virology lecture #14: Virus-host interactions
• TWiV 76: XMRV with Professor Stephen Goff
• Do you want to know what is in your vaccines?
• Microbiology education and social media
• Deep sequencing reveals viral vaccine contaminants
• TWiV 75: Rabies rampant
• Is circovirus DNA infectious?
• Virology lecture #13: Host defense
• Virology blog receives award at researchblogging.org
• Porcine circovirus DNA in rotavirus vaccine
• Futures in Biotech 56: RNA viruses and more
• TWiV #74: Influenza with Professor Adolfo Garcia-Sastre
• The D225G change in 2009 H1N1 influenza virus
• Contagion, the movie
• TWiV 73: Entering the ends
• It’s not easy to make the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus a killer
• Virology lecture #12: Infection basics
• Trivalent influenza vaccine for the 2010-2011 season
• Virology study guide
• TWiV 72: Bucket of bolts
• Cutting the cold chain
• Virology lecture #11: Assembly
• TWiV 71: Please Mr. Postman
• Virology lecture #10: Transcription and RNA processing
• XMRV not detected in Dutch chronic fatigue patients
• Virology lecture #9: Replication of DNA virus genomes
• Virology lecture #8: Translation
• Architecture of a bullet-shaped virus
• TWiV #70: Hacking aphid behavior
• An antiviral for enveloped viruses
• Virology lecture #7: Reverse transcription and integration
• XMRV not found in 170 additional UK chronic fatigue syndrome patients
• Protection against 2009 influenza H1N1 by immunization with 1918-like and classical swine viruses
• Virology lecture #6: RNA-directed RNA synthesis
• TWiV 69: They’re all safecrackers
• Virology lecture #5: Attachment and entry
• Now playing: Viral plaque formation
• Virology lecture #4: Structure of viruses
• TWiV 68: Ode to a plaque
• TWiP 4: Trichinella life cycle
• Virology lecture #3: Genomes and genetics
• XMRV infection is enhanced by prostatic protein fragments
• Virology lecture #2: The infectious cycle
• TWiV 67: Wasting deer and the Hulk rabbit
• Koch’s postulates in the 21st century
• Virology lecture #1: What is a virus?
• A new virology course at Columbia University
• TWiV 66: Reverse transcription
• Radio Sandy Springs interview
• Bornavirus DNA in the mammalian genome
• TWiV 65: Matt’s bats
• XMRV not detected in UK chronic fatigue syndrome patients
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Is bivalent poliovirus vaccine a good idea?
• TWiV 64: Ten virology stories of 2009
• Reinfection with 2009 influenza H1N1
• TWiP 3: Trichinella spiralis
• Influenza neuraminidase inhibitors work
• Smallpox in New York City, 1947
• Futures in Biotech 50: More biotech stories video
• TWiV 63: Melting pot virus
• Viruses and journalism: Poliovirus, HIV, and sperm
• Rhinovirus and zinc part 5: Magnesium is not the culprit
• Are the bees vanishing?
• TWiV 62: Persistence of West Nile virus
• Rhinovirus and zinc part 4: cell toxicity
• Influenza virus growth in eggs
• Futures in Biotech 50: More biotech stories
• AZT inhibits XMRV
• Even toy makers should get the science right
• TWiV 61: Original antigenic sin
• Whither 2009 H1N1?
• Vaccines lecture
• Swine-origin influenza H1N1 as of now
• TWiP 2: General parasitism
• Rhinovirus and zinc part 3
• TWiV 60: Making viral RNA
• Virology lectures
• Clinical benefit of lentiviral gene therapy in two patients with a rare neurologic disease
• The D225G change in 2009 H1N1 influenza virus is not a concern
• Zinc and rhinovirus replication
• Are viruses alive?
• TWiV 59: Dog bites virus
• Second H1N1 peak in US
• Raltegravir inhibits murine leukemia virus: implications for chronic fatigue syndrome?
• Safety of influenza 2009 H1N1 vaccine
• Poliovirus on BBC radio
• Novartis influenza A H1N1 vaccine clinical data
• Viruses and journalism: Off-the-shelf chemicals
• Tamiflu-resistant pandemic influenza H1N1 virus selected by prophylaxis
• GlaxoSmithKline influenza H1N1 vaccine approved
• TWiV 58: Nipah virus in ferrets
• Google influenza vaccine finder
• This Week in Parasitism
• Influenza virus is infectious for days on banknotes
• TWiV 57: Virology in high school
• Is yearly influenza vaccination of children a bad idea?
• Zinc inhibits rhinovirus replication
• Being older is a good defense against 2009 H1N1 influenza virus
• TWiV 56: Perspicuously perspicacious
• Do women need the same amount of influenza vaccine as men?
• Crislip on flu vaccine efficacy
• A better influenza virus animation
• Does influenza vaccine matter?
• TWiV 55: Mice lie, monkeys exaggerate
• XMRV not detected in German prostate cancer
• Influenza H1N1 vaccine approved in Canada
• Severe cases of pandemic influenza
• Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 vaccine: efficacy and safety
• Ten cool facts about viruses
• TWiV 54: Professor Lynn Enquist, virology luminary
• Science podcasters encourage H1N1 vaccination
• XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome
• Are you receiving the influenza 2009 H1N1 vaccine?
• TWiV 53: The ends justify the means
• No basic science for NIH?
• Zinc and the common cold
• Natural antibody protects against viral infection
• TWiV 52: Scott Hammer, MD on AIDS vaccines
• Seasonal influenza vaccine
• C1q and the collectins
• Viruses and journalism
• The complement system
• TWiV 51: ALVAC-HIV and AIDSVAX B/E
• The A, B, and C of influenza virus
• TWiV 50: XMRV
• Interfering with interferon
• What if influenza virus did not reassort?
• TWiV 49: Viral genomes
• Influenza virus reassortment, then and now
• Single dose of 2009 H1N1 vaccine immunogenic in adults
• Pandemic H1N1 influenza virus outcompetes seasonal strains in ferrets
• Return of swine-origin H1N1 influenza to the US
• TWiV 48: Outbreaks near you
• Spit Shields UP H1N1: EMS Garage Episode 51
• ACIP recommendations on monovalent H1N1 vaccine
• Adjuvant effect on H1N1 vaccine
• TWiV 47: Vertical vaccine farm
• Influenza PB1-F2 protein and viral fitness
• No tetravalent influenza vaccine
• Transmission of influenza
• US President’s report on 2009 H1N1 influenza
• TWiV 46: Virus entry into cells
• Rapid sharing of influenza research
• Influenza virus-like particle vaccine
• Poliovirus type 2 returns
• TWiV 45: Hendra and polio are back
• The problems with Barry’s “The Great Influenza”
• Personal protective equipment and influenza
• Virology 101
• Simplifying virus classification: The Baltimore system
• Coxsackie NY and the virus named after it
• TWiV 44: No hysteria
• How viruses are classified
• Marburg virus in Egyptian fruit bats
• CDC wants the public to comment on H1N1 vaccination
• TWiV 43: Virus classification
• Virology pop quiz: Answers
• Influenza neuraminidase and H5N1 pathogenicity
• TWiV 42: Bats and ticks
• Virus neutralization by antibodies
• Adaptive immune defenses: Antibodies
• Name a scientist results
• TWiV 41: Fish flu
• Hand hygiene removes influenza virus
• Is the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus more dangerous than we think?
• Measurement of viruses by end-point dilution assay
• TWiV 40: Tamiflu in the water
• Tamiflu in river water
• How many viruses are needed to form a plaque?
• Detecting viruses: the plaque assay
• TWiV 39: Virus structure
• Adaptive immune defenses
• The inflammatory response
• Many adults cannot name a scientist
• Reassortment of the influenza virus genome
• TWiV 38: Measles
• Packaging of the segmented influenza RNA genome
• Influenza in the US, week 23
• Virology pop quiz
• Influenza 101
• Ian Lipkin at Pop!Tech 2008
• Influenza HA cleavage is required for infectivity
• Conversations from Penn State: Emerging Diseases
• TWiV 37: Open access
• Riding the influenza pandemic wave
• Brazilian influenza H1N1 isolate is not novel
• Influenza surveillance in the US
• How many people die from influenza?
• A viral protease interferes with interferon
• TWiV 36: Pandemic
• Viral evasion of innate host defenses
• Pandemic quiz
• The trajectory of evolution
• Virulence: A positive or negative trait for evolution?
• Influenza virus in the toilet
• Was the swine influenza threat underestimated?
• Transcript of TWiV special with Peter Palese
• TWiV 35: Much achoo about nothing
• Interferons and secondary pneumonia after influenza
• How influenza virus inhibits early antiviral responses
• Innate immune defenses
• Virology pop quiz
• Pathogenesis of influenza in humans
• Futures in Biotech 43: Temporal Alien Mammoth Overlords
• TWiV 34: Arsenic and facemasks
• Lujo virus, a new hemorrhagic fever virus from Southern Africa
• Influenza microneutralization assay
• Influenza hemagglutination inhibition assay
• TWiV 33: Live in Philly video
• US to redirect $1 billion to study adjuvant for influenza vaccine
• TWiV 33: Live in Philly
• WHO will redefine pandemic
• Adults have cross-reactive antibodies to A/California/04/2009 (H1N1)
• Viruses and the respiratory tract
• Why don’t DNA based organisms discard error repair?
• Assembly of influenza virus
• Co-circulation of three human influenza A subtypes
• TWiV 32: Influenza in silico
• Increased fidelity reduces viral fitness
• Pushing viruses over the error threshold
• Influenza A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1) – Questions & Answers
• The number of possible viral variants
• Influenza A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1) virulence and transmission
• Viral quasispecies and bottlenecks
• The quasispecies concept
• The error-prone ways of RNA synthesis
• TWiV 31: Fever plus cough or sore throat
• Influenza viral RNA synthesis
• Influenza A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1) update
• Critique of influenza virus animation
• Release of influenza viral RNAs into cells
• TWiV Special: Dr. Peter Palese
• Influenza A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1) – Questions and answers
• Animation of influenza virus replication
• Influenza virus attachment to cells: role of different sialic acids
• Influenza and gastrointestinal symptoms
• Nucleotide sequences of influenza A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1) viruses available
• Influenza virus attachment to cells
• Influenza A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1) update
• Influenza discussion at TWiT live
• Influenza A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1): Questions and answers
• TWiV #30: A/Mexico/4108/2009 (H1N1)
• Why swine flu isn’t so scary
• Influenza A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1): Absence of crucial virulence marker
• Influenza virus RNA: Translation into protein
• Influenza A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1): Questions and answers
• Influenza virus RNA genome
• Swine influenza A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1) update
• Structure of influenza virus
• Swine flu A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1): Questions and answers
• Oseltamivir resistance decreases influenza aerosol transmission
• Swine influenza A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1) update
• Influenza virus transmission
• Swine flu: Questions and answers
• Swine influenza daily update
• Swine influenza, seasonality, and the northern hemisphere
• Swine influenza H1N1 update
• Swine flu returns
• New swine influenza viruses in humans
• Could Rift Valley fever come to the US?
• A retrovirus is invading the Koala genome
• A Defense of Vaccines
• TWiV #28: SARS
• Polio returns to Minnesota
• Novel rapid test for influenza H5N1 virus
• Reverse zoonoses: Human viruses that infect other animals
• Merkel cell polyomavirus, a new oncogenic human virus?
• TWiV #27: Leaving latency
• How herpes simplex virus exits latency
• Hand, foot, and mouth disease outbreak in China
• Negri bodies and rabies
• Futures in Biotech on influenza
• Learning vaccinology from an immunization record
• TWiV #26: Poxviruses
• Prevalence of human polyomaviruses
• Polyomavirus JC, multiple sclerosis, Tysabri, and an anti-malaria drug
• Poliovirus vaccine litigation
• TWiV #25: Viral evolution
• The abundant and diverse viruses of the seas
• Viruses and the tree of life
• Chikungunya: An exotic virus on the move
• Persistent viral infections
• Swine flu at Fort Dix
• TWiV #24: Viroids
• Bacteriophages, viral vaccines, and poliovirus
• Bacteriophages in viral vaccines
• Chronology of an acute infection
• Polio among the Amish
• Virus images at VIPERdb
• New hepatitis C antiviral drugs
• Harold Varmus on Daily Show
• Offit on vaccines and autism
• Origin of current influenza H1N1 virus
• TWiV #22: Viral Bioinformatics
• A plethora of papillomaviruses
• Dreaming of inactivated poliovirus vaccine
• Influenza vaccine for life?
• Anti-HIV ribozyme: an alternative to HAART?
• What color is a virus?
• TWiV #21: Viruses of bacteria
• Did smallpox lead to HIV-1 resistance?
• Seasonality of influenza revisited
• Antigenic variation explains recurring acute infections
• An unusual symbiosis between wasp and virus
• Is an effective treatment for the common cold at hand?
• TWiV #20: Hepatitis C virus
• Sensor face
• Acute viral infections
• Infectious DNA clones
• Marburg virus travels to the US
• A case of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
• The amazing HeLa cells of Henrietta Lacks
• TWiV #19: Cap-snatching
• Influenza vaccine – hold the eggs
• Hantavirus N protein strikes again
• Mouse model for hepatitis C virus infection?
• Cosavirus – a new human picornavirus
• Ebola virus glycoprotein antagonizes tetherin
• TWiV #18: Can a virus make you fat?
• Viruses and obesity?
• VirologyWiki is open
• Innate sensors of DNA
• New influenza antiviral drugs
• John Updike, 1932-2009
• Integration of arenavirus DNA into the cell genome
• Ebola in pigs – Nipah redux?
• TWiV #17: Seminal discoveries in virology
• Immunopathology: Too much of a good thing
• Hantavirus protein replaces eIF4F
• The zoonotic pool
• President Obama’s plans for science
• Letters from Albert Sabin
• TWiV #16: Virology in Saanen, HIV origins
• Science and the social web
• TWiV #15: Deer mice, Spanish flu, measles, antiviral resistance
• Tamiflu resistance of influenza H1N1 strains
• Seasonality of influenza
• Virology prediction for 2009: Virus evolution will continue
• Principles of Virology, Third Edition
• TWiV #14: Common cold, H5N1 transmission, HIV denial, Ebola
• TWiV #13: Top 10 virology stories of 2008
• CDC influenza RSS feed
• Discovery of viruses
• Obama names virologist Varmus to science team
• Oseltamivir resistance in current H1N1 influenza virus strains
• TWiV # 12: Prions in milk, lemur lentiviruses, RS virus vaccine, H5N1
• 100th anniversary of the isolation of poliovirus
• Equine herpesvirus 9 in zoo animals
• H5N1 expert says ‘The virus is definitely mutating’
• D. Carleton Gajdusek, 85
• Dick Despommier in Time magazine
• TWiV #11 – Elite controllers, mosquitoes, and winter vomiting
• Emerging viruses?
• Science blogging: a reader’s view
• TWiV #10 – Bats, elephants, and AIDS
• New antiviral strategies
• Why should scientists blog and podcast?
• BioCrowd beta
• The Virology Network at socialmedian.com
• TWiV #9 – Fever! The discovery of Lassa virus
• Google flu – the research article
• Google Flu getting flak
• TWiV #8 – HIV resistance, Google flu, measles in Gibraltar, viral batteries
• Using Google to track influenza
• Abandoned Pools and West Nile virus
• TWiV #7 – Viruses in video games
• Dengue in the news
• TWiV #6 – Latest virus outbreaks
• Polio is spreading
• TWiV #5 – Herpesviruses
• TWiV #4 – Rabies
• Virologists take 2008 Nobel in Medicine
• TWiV #2 – Polio is not dead
• This Week in Virology – TWiV
• Virology podcast feed
• Virology Podcast
• Why kids get bored with science
• Measles vaccine: No association with autism
• More on vaccines
• More vaccine bashing
• Federal Control of Science
• Titer is not a verb
• Questions on Bioterror Research
• The Biocrowd
• No more viruses?
• Viruses are the ultimate spammers
• Europic 2008
• Creation of a killer poxvirus
• Virology G6021
• New look for virology.ws
• Enterovirus 70 Outbreak in Asia
• Herd Immunity
• Benefit of stopping vaccination with OPV
• Cellular & Molecular Immunology
• 14,000 Year Old Feces
• Chikungunya
• Families shunning inoculations
• No H5N1 Pandemic
• 99% of Microbes
• The Stupidity of Humans
• The Moral Code of Science
• When Theory Becomes Law
• MRSA is NOT a virus
• Polio in Nigeria
• Polio and Nobel Prizes
• Papers
• Bio Job Blog
• HubMed
• VHSV – A Deadly Virus of Fish
• Polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan
• Eradication of Measles in South Korea
• Should graduate students blog?
• Marshall Horwitz
• Maurice Hilleman
• Jonas Salk’s Poliovaccine
• Should we worry about avian influenza?
• Should viral vaccines be made for profit?
• Science Fiction or Fact?
• Poliovirus
• Norovirus Redux
• Animalcules
• West Nile Virus
• Antiviral Drugs
• Norovirus Gastroenteritis
• What is a virus?
• HIV, AIDS, and Condoms
• Poliovirus is IRESistable
• The Bioterror Boondoggle
• Are Viruses Living?