TWiV 890: Looking into a booster crystal ball

A discussion of avian influenza H5N1 transmission experiments in ferrets and novel bunyaviruses at the 2012 Spring Conference of the Society for General Microbiology in Dublin, Ireland. Links for this...

1 Apr 20121h 5min

Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener email about MS, CFS, EBV, B cells, virii, influenza B, scientific papers, and more. Links for this episode: More than one way to skin a virus (comments) Aerobi...

24 Mar 20121h 26min

Vincent, Alan, and Matt discuss herpes simplex encephalitis in children with innate immune deficiency, and the local response to microneedle-based influenza skin immunization. Links for this episode: ...

18 Mar 20121h 19min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich consider whether pet dogs might transmit human noroviruses, and an RNA virus microRNA that might be involved in oncogenesi...

11 Mar 20121h 25min

The TWiVites discuss seroevidence for human infection with avian influenza H5N1, and the discovery of a new influenza virus in Guatemalan bats. Links for this episode: Seroevidence for human H5N1 inf...

4 Mar 20121h 57min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Kathy Spindler Vincent and Kathy discuss how a virus may cause disease distant from its replication site, then review a day in the life of a senior microbiology professor...

27 Feb 20121h 42min

Matt joins the TWiVarians to review virus production in single cells and single virion genomics. Links for this episode: H5N1 results will be published (NY Times) Virus production in single cells the...

19 Feb 20121h 32min

Alan, Rich, and Dickson discuss Edward Jenner's paper on cowpox vaccine, then move 200 years later to modern vaccines against norovirus, influenza H5N1, and more. Links for this episode: Norton Zinde...

12 Feb 20121h 40min