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Science retracts paper on detection of XMRV in CFS patients

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Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine, writes that the journal is retracting the 2009 paper describing the detection of the retrovirus XMRV in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: Science is fully retracting the Report “Detection of an infectious retrovirus, XMRV, in blood cells of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome”. He writes that the decision was …

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TWiV 158: Wolverines go viral

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alice Telesnitsky, and Kathy Spindler Vincent and Rich visit the Microbiology and Immunology Department at the University of Michigan Medical School, and speak with Alice and Kathy about their work on HIV genome dimerization, and packaging and pathogenesis of mouse adenovirus. Model of poliovirus bound to CD155 made by Stefan Taube. …

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TWiV 157: Better innate than never

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, Jeremy Luban, and Gabriel Victora A large TWiV panel remembers Ralph Steinman, and considers a new innate sensor of retroviral capsids. Photograph of a dendritic cell (green) interacting with T cells (cyan) near a blood vessel by Gabriel Victora. Please help us by taking our listener survey. …

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TWiV 154: Symbiotic safecrackers

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich are very enthusiastic about two studies that show how gut bacteria help viral invaders. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV154.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 154 (46 MB .mp3, 77 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, …

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TWiV 143: Live at ASV in Minneapolis

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Julie Overbaugh, and Stacey Schultz-Cherry Vincent, Rich, Julie and Stacey recorded TWiV at the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology in Minneapolis, where they discussed the role of neutralizing antibodies in protection against HIV-1 infection, and astroviruses, agents of gastroenteritis. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV143.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, …

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