This Table of Contents goes back to 2010, only because I’ve not done the rest yet.
A
Acute flaccid paralysis
ALS
Animals
Antibodies
Archaea viruses
Are viruses alive/living?
Arenavirus
Autophagy
B
Bacteria
- A lytic bacterium that behaves like a virus
- A minimal cell operating system
- Bacteriophages
- Phage synergy with the immune system
- Bacteriophage superspreaders
- Communication between virus-infected cells
- A viral nucleus
- Giving your neighbor the gift of virus susceptibility
- Eukaryotic genes in a bacteriophage
- Viruses help form biofilms
- Viruses might provide mucosal immunity
- The Hershey-Chase food blender
- From a food blender to real-time fluorescent imaging
- Milestones in Microbiology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Viruses go green
- Are there viruses of arsenic-utilizing bacteria?
Biofilms
Bodo saltans virus
Bracovirus
BSL-4 laboratory
- Visiting biosafety level-4 laboratories
- Unraveling the NEIDL
- Hemorrhagic fever virus missing from BSL-4 laboratory
- Threading the NEIDL: TWiV goes inside a BSL-4
- Behind the scenes: TWiV 200 at the NEIDL
Bunyavirus
C
Cafeteria roenbergensis virus
Cancer
Chlorovirus
Circovirus
Communication
- Your face matters to science
- We need celebrity life scientists
- I have always marched for science
- Scientists: Engage the public!
- Ten years of virology blog
- Viruses on Time
- Spillover and science communication
- Behind the scenes: TWiV 202 at the University of Nebraska
- The dwindling American science majors
- Live tweeting of the ASV meeting
Coronavirus
- Fake news and fake science
- Moving beyond metagenomics to identify the next pandemic virus
- Bat SARS-like coronavirus: It’s not SARS 2.0!
- MERS-coronavirus in dromedary camels
- An epidemic of porcine diarrhea in North America
- MERS-CoV genome found in dromedary camels
- Bat SARS-like coronavirus that infects human cells
- Part of MERS-CoV nucleotide sequence found in a bat
- Receptor for new coronavirus-EMC identified
- No further evidence of novel coronavirus
- A new coronavirus isolated from humans
CRISPR-Cas
D
Dengue virus
E
Ebolavirus
- Ebola virus mutations do not affect pathogenicity
- Ebolavirus infections but no outbreak
- Increased infectivity of Ebola virus glycoprotein from West Africa
- An Ebolavirus vaccine in Africa
- Long-term effects of Ebolavirus infection
- Ebolavirus will not become a respiratory pathogen
- How ZMapp antibodies bind to Ebola virus
- A promising Ebolavirus antiviral compound
- Nobel laureates and Ebolavirus quarantine
- Ebola virus arrives in New York City
- Ebolavirus vaccines and antivirals
- Zaire ebolavirus in West Africa
- What we are not afraid to say about Ebola virus
- Transmission of Ebola virus
- Could the Ebola virus epidemic have been prevented?
- Ebola virus enters the United States
- Ebola virus arrives in New York City
- WHO on Ebola virus transmission
- Treatment of Ebola virus infection with brincidofovir
- Would we have an Ebola virus vaccine if not for NIH cuts?
- WHO assessment of experimental Ebola virus vaccines
- The quarantine period for Ebola virus
- Can Ebola virus infect via the skin?
- How Firestone controlled Ebola virus disease in Liberia
- Could Reston virus be a vaccine for Ebola virus?
- Is it Ebolavirus or Ebola virus?
- How lethal is ebolavirus?
Enterovirus
Epidemiology
- Notifiable diseases in the US for 2011
- Small fragments of viral nucleic acid cross borders in monkey meat
- Inside the outbreaks
Evolution
- Good viruses visiting bad neighborhoods
- A history of vertebrate RNA viruses
- From cell proteins to viral capsids
- A plasmid on the road to becoming a virus
- Ancient proteins block modern viruses
- Forget the fourth domain of life
- TWiEVO: This Week in Evolution
- Exaptation: A cell enzyme becomes a viral capsid protein
- Origin of segmented RNA virus genomes
- Dual virus-receptor duel
- Nature just is
- A DNA virus with the capsid of an RNA virus
F
Fairness
Fish virus
Foot-and-mouth disease virus
Funding
- Can the big ship NIH turn at all?
- Federal funding for science research
- NIH grant success rate hits all time low
- NIH head defends new center for translational science
- American science and the budget crisis
Fusion
G
Gain of function debate
- Moving beyond metagenomics to identify the next pandemic virus
- 1977 H1N1 influenza virus is not relevant to the gain of function debate
- Scientists for Science
- Fouchier vs the Dutch government on influenza H5N1 research
- Virologists plan influenza H7N9 gain of function experiments
- Proposed US policy on dual use research of concern
- Harvard University: Great virology, bad science writing
- The risks and benefits of influenza H5N1 research
- Headline writes: Please take a virology course
- End of moratorium on influenza H5n1 research
- Origin of the H5N1 storm
- Influenza H5N1 virus versus ferrets, round two
- Kawaoka paper published on aerosol transmission of H5 influenza virus in ferrets
- NSABB reverses decision on publication of H5N1 results
- Influenza H5N1 is not lethal in ferrets after airborne transmission
- Science might publish H5N1 data
- Don’t censor influenza research
- The NSABB speaks on influenza H5N1
- H5N1 facts, not fear
- Moratorium on influenza H5N1 transmission research
- Palese: Don’t censor life-saving science
- NY Times: H5N1 ferret research should not have been done
- Avian N5N1 influenza and biosecurity on Science Friday
- Should we fear avian H5N1 influenza?
- A bad day for science
- Ferreting out influenza H5N1
Gene therapy
Genome
- Planaria and mollusks yield the biggest RNA virus genomes
- Fermentation genes in a giant algal virus
- Only the ribosome is lacking
- Animal viruses with separately packaged RNA segments
- A dancing matrix of viruses
- Virology question of the week: why a segmented viral genome?
- Top secret, viruses with RNA genomes!
- Unexpected endogenous viruses
H
HeLa cells
- HeLa RNA is everywhere
- A saga of HeLa cells
- Henrietta Lacks (HeLa) genome sequence published then withdrawn
Hepatitis A virus
Hepatitis B virus
Hepatitis C virus
- Combination antiviral therapy for hepatitis C
- What price antiviral drugs?
- Treating hepatitis C by blocking a cellular microRNA
- Did hepatitis C virus originate in horses?
- Canine hepacivirus, a relative of hepatitis C virus
- A new target for hepatitis C virus
Herpesvirus
- Herpesviruses and Alzheimer’s Disease
- A live-attenuated herpes simplex virus vaccine candidate
- A herpesvirus associated with female infertility
HIV-1/AIDS
- CRISPR-ing HIV-1
- Dugas was not AIDS patient zero
- A huge host contribution to virus mutation rates
- Blocking HIV infection with two soluble receptors
- The Berlin patient
- HIV gets the zinc finger
- Antimicrobial peptides induced by herpesvirus enhance HIV-1 infection
- The AIDS pandemic
- HIV among US youth
- Not-so-similar fate of identical twins infected with HIV-1
History
- Ten seminal virologists
- Virology at the Deutsches Museum
- Rich Condit reminisces
- Prokaryotes considered
Human papillomavirus
- HPV vaccines do not encourage risky sexual behavior
- Women AND men beware: HPV, the culprit behind more than just cervical cancers?
I
Incubation period
Influenza virus
- Influenza virus in the eye
- Defective viral genomes and severe influenza
- A breath of fresh influenza virus
- How a toupee compromised influenza vaccine
- Kermit’s urumi
- Flu and the Y chromosome
- Influenza virus in breast milk
- 1977 H1N1 influenza virus is not relevant to the gain of function debate
- How influenza virus infection might lead to gastrointestinal symptoms
- The value of influenza aerosol transmission experiments
- Reconstruction of 1918-like avian influenza virus stirs concern over gain of function experiments
- A WORD on the constraints of influenza virus evolution
- Unusual mortality pattern of 1918 influenza A virus
- Attenuated influenza vaccine enhances bacterial colonization of mice
- Yet another avian influenza virus, H10N8, infects humans
- Cutting through mucus with the influenza virus neuraminidase
- Changing influenza virus neuraminidase into a receptor binding protein
- Influenza A viruses in bats
- The neuraminidase of influenza virus
- Virus-induced fever might change bacteria from commensal to pathogen
- Incidence of asymptomatic human influenza A(H5N1) virus infection
- A single amino acid change switches avian influenza H5N1 and H7N9 viruses to human receptors
- Inefficient influenza H7N9 virus aerosol transmission among ferrets
- Influenza H5N1 x H1N1 reassortants: ignore the headlines, it’s good science
- Human infections with avian influenza H7N9 virus from wet market poultry
- WHO report on human cases of avian influenza A(H7N9) infection
- First imported human infection with avian influenza H7N9
- Avian influenza H7N7 virus outbreak: Lessons for H7N9
- Avian influenza H7N9 viruses isolated from humans: What do the gene sequences mean?
- First human infections with avian influenza H7N9 virus
- Comment on H5N1 lethality in humans
- Human infections with influenza H5N1 virus: How many?
- Friday flu shot
- Friday flu shot
- Influenza is on the rise
- More evidence for mild influenza H5N1 infections
- Evidence for influenza H5N1 infections in humans
- A $707 million investment in cell-based influenza vaccine
- How good is the influenza vaccine?
- David and Goliath: How one cytokine may take down influenza
- Gut microbes influence defense against influenza
- H1N1 pandemic is over
- Secondary changes allow spread of oseltamivir resistant influenza virus
Innate immunity
J
Journals
K
L
Lassa virus
Leishmaniavirus
Lentivirus
Lymphocytes
M
Measles virus
ME/CFS by David Tuller
- An Open Letter to the Lancet, Again
- Trial By Error, Continued: A Few Words About “Harassment”
- At least we’re not vexatious
- Trial By Error, Continued: More Nonsense from the Lancet Psychiatry
- Trial By Error, Continued: Did the PACE Trial Really Prove that Graded Exercise Is Safe?
- Trial By Error, Continued: Questions for Dr. White and his PACE Colleagues
- Revisiting the PLoS One economics analysis of PACE
- A request for data from the PACE trial
- Trial by error, Continued: PACE Team’s Work for Insurance Companies Is “Not Related” to PACE. Really?
- An open letter to Dr. Richard Horton and The Lancet
- Trial By Error, Continued: Why has the PACE Study’s “Sister Trial” been “Disappeared” and Forgotten?
- Trial By Error, Continued: Did the PACE Study Really Adopt a ‘Strict Criterion’ for Recovery?
- David Tuller responds to the PACE investigators
- PACE trial investigators respond to David Tuller
- TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study (final installment)
- TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study (second installment)
- TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study
- ME/CFS by Vincent Racaniello
- Intestinal dysbiosis in ME/CFS patients
- B cell depletion benefits ME/CFS patients
Methods
- What does transfection mean?
- Metabolic manipulations in virus-infected cells
- Virology question of the week: What matters more, multiplicity of infection or virus concentration?
- Viral bioinformatics: Sequence searcher
- Viral bioinformatics: Multiple sequence alignment – Base-By-Base (BBB) editor
- Viral bioinformatics: Multiple sequence alignment – Jalview
- Viral bioinformatics: Introduction to multiple sequence alignment
- Detecting viral proteins in infected cells or tissues by immunostaining
- Viral bioinformatics: Recombination
- Viral bioinformatics: Dotplot
- Viral bioinformatics: Introduction + Homology
- Detection of antigens or antibodies by ELISA
- Virology toolbox: the western blot
Microbe Art
- Cross-stitched viruses
- Viral fiber art
- Viral necklaces
- Viral gifts
- The science-themed art of Deb Sklut
- Glass microbes
- Viruses at Artomatic 2012
Microbiome
Mosquito
- Mosquito blood feeding is not a free lunch
- Mosquito saliva enhances virus replication and disease
- Sushi protects mosquitoes from lethal virus infections
Mumps virus
Mutation
- A huge host contribution to virus mutation rates
- Viral variation in single cells
- Describing a viral quasispecies
N
Nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses
- A different kind of remote control
- How viruses infect a cell within a cell
- Do giant viruses have a CRISPR-like immune system or a protein restriction factor?
- Pithovirus: Bigger than Pandoravirus with a smaller genome
- Pandoravirus, bigger and unlike anything seen before
- The largest viral genome from a human
- Megavirus, the biggest known virus
- Brent Johnson on virophage
- Virophages engineer the ecosystem
- Virophage, the virus eater
O
Obituaries
- Roger W. Hendrix, 74
- Neurovirologist Richard T. Johnson, 84
- Richard Elliott, virologist
- John Holland, 83
- Hilary Koprowski, 96
- Aaron J. Shatkin, 77
- Renato Dulbecco, 1914-2012
- Norton Zinder, 1928-2012
- Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
- Har Gobind Khorana, master decoder
- Bernard F. Erlanger, 88
- Robert A. Weisberg, 1937-2011
- Baruch S. Blumberg, MD, 1925-2011
- Edwin D. Kilbourne, MD, 1920-2011
- Frank Fenner, MD, 1914-2010
- Robert M. Chanock, MD, 1924-2010
Ocean viruses
Oncogenes
P
Pathogen discovery
Parasites
PhD
Plaque assay
- The purity of plaques
- The Lazarus virus
- Are all virus particles infectious?
- Multiplicity of infection
Plant viruses
Poliovirus
- A test of the poliovirus endgame
- Papua New Guinea is no longer polio-free
- Venezuela is still polio-free
- Three countries endemic for poliovirus
- Whole plant cells producing viral capsid protein as a poliovirus vaccine candidate
- From trivalent to bivalent oral poliovirus vaccine
- The switch from trivalent to bivalent oral poliovirus vaccine: Will it lead to polio?
- Virologists, start your poliovirus destruction!
- Why do we still use Sabin poliovirus vaccine?
- Shedding poliovirus for 28 years
- A collection of polioviruses
- The Wall of Polio, version 3.0
- Blocking virus infection with soluble cell receptors
- An unexpected benefit of inactivated poliovirus vaccine
- Implications of finding poliovirus in sewers of Brazil and Israel
- Poliovirus escapes antibodies
- Oral polio vaccine-associated paralysis in a child despite previous immunization with inactivated virus
- Polio-like paralysis in California
- India has been free of polio for three years
- World polio day
- Poliovirus silently (and not so silently) spreads
- The Wall of Polio
- Poliovirus on time
- WHO will switch to type 2 inactivated poliovirus vaccine
- Vaccine-associated poliomyelitis in Pakistan
- World polio day
- Can India remain polio-free?
- India polio-free for one year
- Wild poliovirus in China
- Thirty years of infectious enthusiasm
- Transgenic mice susceptible to poliovirus
- Poliomyelitis after a twelve year incubation period
Polymerase
Poxvirus
- A virus with a green thumb
- Should variola virus, the agent of smallpox, be destroyed?
- Should smallpox virus be destroyed?
Prions
- How prions make you sick
- Prions in bacteria
- A blood test for prion disease
- Structure of an infectious prion
- Is chronic wasting disease a threat to humans?
- Prion contamination in the emergency room
- A case of prion disease acquired from contaminated beef
- Prions in plants
- Resistance to prion disease in humans
- Detecting prions by quaking and shaking
- Infectious agents with no genome
- A mad cow in America
Q
R
Racaniello, Vincent
- An inordinate fondness for viruses
- Thirty-five years later
- Thirty years in my laboratory at Columbia University
- Thirty years of infectious enthusiasm
- Transgenic mice susceptible to poliovirus
Recombination
Reproducibility
Respiratory syncytial virus
Retrovirus
- Retroviruses turned egg-layers into live-bearers
- Purging the PERVs
- Retroviruses R us
- Retroviral influence on human embryonic development
- A retrovirus makes chicken eggshells blue
- Inadvertent transfer of a mammalian retrovirus into birds
- Spread of koala retrovirus in Australia
- Museum pelts help date the koala retrovirus
- Cleaning up after XMRV
- Authors retract paper on detection of murine leukemia virus-releated sequences in CFS patients
- Science retracts paper on detection of XMRV in CFS patients
- Admit when you are wrong
- Trust science, not scientists
- Murine gammaretroviruses in prostate cancer cell lines
- XMRV is a recombinant virus from mice
- Ian Lipkin on XMRV
- Ila Singh finds no XMRV in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome
- Authenticity of XMRV integration sites
- XMRV infection of Rhesus macaques
- Derek Lowe on how science gets done
- Retroviral integration and the XMRV provirus
- Retroviruses and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- XMRV and CFS – It’s not the end
- Is XMRV a laboratory contaminant?
- Why John Coffin doesn’t sleep well
- PMRV joins XMRV as possible etiologic agent of chronic fatigue syndrome
- XMRV not detected in seminal plasma
- Publication of XMRV papers should not be blocked
- FDA and NIH confirm WPI XMRV findings
- XMRV, prostate cancer, and chronic fatigue syndrome
Reverse transcriptase
Rhabdovirus
Rhinovirus
- Rhinoviruses have a sweet tooth
- Blocking rhinovirus infection by inhibiting a cell enzyme
- A human rhinovirus in chimpanzees
- A new cell receptor for rhinovirus
RNA
Rubella virus
Rudivirus
S
Salk, Jonas
Satellites
Sea star wasting disease virus
Structure
- Viral glycoproteins are not always randomly distributed
- Covering up a naked virus
- A new type of enveloped virus?
- Viral size matters
Symbiosis
Synthetic biology
T
Teaching
- The traditional lecture is not dead. I would know – I’m a professor
- Twenty-five lectures in virology for 2017
- Twenty-five lectures in virology
- Earth’s virology course for 2016
- Shelves and mentors
- Principles of Virology, Fourth Edition
- Virology for planet Earth
- Twenty-six lectures in virology
- How to give a great lecture
- Virology at Coursera
- Earth’s virology course
- Roger Ebert on curiosity
- New media publishing: Whither the textbook?
- How I record my lectures
- Virologia en Espanol
- A virology course for all
- Be curious
- This isn’t the petition response you’re looking for
- Virology lecture: Picornaviruses
- Virology class at Montana State University
- Earth’s virology professor
- My virology course at Columbia University
- A virology course at Columbia University
- Social media and microbiology education
- Microbiology books for kids
Transmission
Trichomonas vaginalis virus
U
V
Vaccines
- Paradoxical vaccines
- Permissive vaccines and viral virulence
- New Yorkers like their science from scientists
- Influenza vaccines for individuals with egg allergy
- Effectiveness of this season’s influenza vaccine
- Deans write to Obama about CIA vaccine scheme in Pakistan
- Pandemic influenza vaccine was too late in 2009
- Thoughts on this season’s influenza vaccine
- Universal influenza vaccines
Vilyuisk encephalitis
Viperin
Viral Oncotherapy
- Therapeutic teamwork: Coupling oncolytic viruses with immunotherapy to destroy tumor cells
- Designer viruses for killing tumor cells
Viroids
Virome
- Humpback whale respiratory virome
- The viruses in your blood
- The Arctic fresh water virome
- Your viral past
- Viral genomes in 700 year old Caribou scat
- How many viruses on Earth?
Virus entry
- Virology question of the week
- Capturing viruses with bacteria
- A spike for piercing the cell membrane
Virus resistance
Virulence
- Incomplete immunity and the evolution of virulence
- Permissive vaccines and viral virulence
- Why do viruses cause disease?
W
X
Y
Yellow fever virus
Z
Zika virus
- A mouse model system for Zika virus infection
- Zika virus blocks the neuron road
- Zika virus has always been neurotropic
- Does prior dengue virus infection exacerbate Zika virus disease?
- Viral RNA is not infectious virus!
- Antibodies aid dengue and Zika virus infection
- Congress fails on Zika virus
- Zika virus and mosquito eradication
- The Zika effect
- Science publishing has a Zika problem
- Zika virus crosses the placenta and causes microcephaly in mice
- Antibodies to dengue virus enhance infection by Zika virus
- Zika virus in Brazilian non-human primates
- Zika virus, like all other viruses, is mutating
- Structure of Zika virus
- Zika virus infection of the nervous system
- Congenital Zika syndrome
- Scientists, share your Zika virus reagents!
- Zika virus
- Zika from sex, the byway but not the highway
- Zika virus and microcephaly
- Zika virus and the fetus
- Person to person Zika virus transmission
Zoonosis