On episode #290 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent meets up with Janet Butel and Rick Lloyd at Baylor College of Medicine to talk about their work on polyomaviruses and virus induced stress. You can find TWiV #290 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.
On episode #250 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent and Robert Garcea talked about polyomaviruses. This episode was recorded at the 53rd ICAAC in Denver, Colorado. You can find TWiV #250 at www.microbe.tv/twiv, or view the video below.
For the second time in a week I note the passing of an important virologist. Renato Dulbecco, together with David Baltimore and Howard Temin, received the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about how tumor viruses interact with the genetic material of the cell. Dulbecco also devised my favorite virological method, the plaque …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit On episode #96 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Dickson, and Rich continue Virology 101 with a discussion of how viruses with DNA genomes replicate their genetic information. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV096.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #96 (65 MB .mp3, 90 minutes) …
Deep sequencing – which identified a viral contaminant of the rotavirus vaccine Rotarix – could have revealed the presence of simian virus 40 (SV40) in the poliovirus vaccine, had the technique been available in the 1950s. Exposure of over 100 million Americans to SV40, and many more worldwide, could have been avoided, as well as the debate …
While immunosuppressive therapy can ameliorate a variety of diseases, one unfortunate side effect of the treatment is that it may lead to pathogenic infections by viruses which would otherwise be benign. An example is the brain infection PML which occurs when immunosuppression leads to replication of the polyomavirus JC. How many polyomaviruses do we have …
