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Microbiology is poised to make significant inroads towards reducing dependence on crude oil and petroleum-based products. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Read More
For fours years I have taught a virology course at Columbia University and have posted videos of each lecture on my website, virology.ws, and at iTunes University. Nearly 100,000 individuals have subscribed to my virology course at iTunes University. Now Columbia has signed an agreement with Cou...
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Host Vincent Racaniello, co-hosts Moselio Schaechter and Michael Schmidt, and guests highlight research on a phage s... Read More Jonathan Eisen is an evolutionary biologist, currently working at University of California, Davis and is the academic editor-in-chief of the open-access journal PLoS Biology. On this episode, J... Read More I went to the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, in Denver, Colorado, and I wanted to share some of the fascinating science that I experienced. So here's my summary of the first day! {joomp3_ext}http://traffic.libsyn.com/bacteriofiles/BFspecialASM2013-May18.mp3{... Read More
There have been 131 confirmed human infections with avian influenza H7N9 virus in China, but so far there is little evidence for human to human transmission. Three out of four patients report exposure to animals, ‘mostly chickens‘, suggesting that most of the infections are zoonoses. Whether or ...
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Here's my summary of the second day of ASM2013, an exciting day full of science. Tommy writes: Hi Vincent and Dickson, I was listening to the new episode of TWiP (episode 52) and one of your listeners wrote in asking about tree parasites. While plant parasite is not my main field of research, I have written about one such pa... Read More
Miravirsen is a drug that binds to and blocks the function of a cellular microRNA called miR-122 that is required for the replication of hepatitis C virus (HCV). Treatment of chimpanzees chronically infected with HCV with this drug leads to suppression of viral replication. The results of a phas...
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Wink writes: Great HAI work! I'm not through it yet. I want to question, though, whether fomites are really important in influenza transmission. I don't think so. [flu can transmit by fomites in guinea pigs: Read More
Two back-to-back papers were published last week that provide a detailed analysis of what it would take for avian influenza H5N1 and H7N9 viruses to switch to human receptors. A single amino acid change in the viral hemagglutinin protein is sufficient to quantitatively change binding of the viru...
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Here's my summary of the third day of ASM2013, wherein I met with neat people and ideas. |













