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Threading the NEIDL - Inside a BSL-4 Lab (MWV 68)

Constructed in 2009 in the highly populated South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) facility contains labs that operate at biosafety levels 2, 3 and 4. Due to its location the NEIDL has faced a raft of legal and regulator... Read More

TWiM #52: Clinical microbiology with Ellen Jo Baron



Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and  Read More

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 105 - Pythium Provides Pollutant Pipelines

This episode: Fungi and such can transport pollutants in soil to bacteria for degradation!





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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 106 - Bacteriophages Bust Blackheads

This episode: Scientists find that phages might be good for treating acne!





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TWiP 51: Modifying mosquitoes with Anthony A. James



Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier


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MWV Episode 67 - The Secret Language of Bacteria

No bacterium lives alone – it is constantly encountering members of its own species as well as other kinds of bacteria and diverse organisms like viruses, fungi, plants and animals. To navigate a complex world, microbes use chemical signals to sense and communicate with one another... Read More

TWiM #55: In the copper room



Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and  Read More

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 109 - Labeling Lung Lurkers

This episode: Identifying the microbial communities of the lungs!


 




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TWiM #53: Live in Manchester (with video!)



Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Laura Piddock, Read More

TWiV 201 Letters

Dennis writes:


Dear Vincent,


I am glad you had a chance to get a glimpse of the BSL4 world. You might remember that I have been trying for 1 1/2 years to get you to see the Galveston National Laboratory, a facility with an actual ACTIVE program and a number of... Read More

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 103 - Prokaryotes Palliate Plants' Pollution Pressures

This episode: Soil bacteria can help plants adapt to changing climate conditions!





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TWiP 52: Not your ordinary unsegmented roundworm



Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier


Vincent and Dickson review... Read More

Estimating influenza-related sick leave in Norway: Was work absenteeism higher during the H1N1 pandemic?

The impact of influenza on work absenteeism is poorly documented. Researchers used data from the national registry and Norway Post AS (>14,000 employees) to explore sickness absence patterns from 2005/06 through 2009/10 in Norway. Annually, an estimated 2.868% (mean 95% confidence interval (CI):... Read More

TWiP 49: Making sense of toxo and heme



Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier


Vincent and Dickson discus... Read More

Don’t Panic—Ebola Isn’t Heading For You

An outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever that began in early July 2012 has involved at least 36 individuals and 16 deaths. So far the disease has been confined to a rural region west of Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The subject of Richard Preston’s scary The Hot Zone, Ebola virus is newsworthy b... Read More

TWiM 43 Letters

Jake writes:

Hello Vincent,
I've been listening to your TWiM podcast now for a few weeks as I am a student at SDSU taking a microbial genetics class with stanley maloy.  It be be ... Read More

TWiP 50: Antagonism in the mosquito midgut



Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier


Vincent and Dickson reveal... Read More

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 98 - Modified Microbes Make Mosquito Midguts Murder Malaria

This episode: Scientists engineer mosquito gut bacteria to fight malaria!





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A Few Thoughts About the 2012 San Francisco ASM General Meeting by Elio Schaechter

I recently returned from the ASM yearly general meeting in San Francisco. It happens to be 60 years, no less, since I attended my first such event, that one in Chicago. In those days, many members attended a giant banquet as part of the event, I well remember. As a poor graduate student, I could... Read More

TWiP 44 Letters

Todd writes:

Hello Dixon and Vincent!


Your research and real life experience is slowly getting summarized by researchers so that it can be understood by reporters (aka those who
have a disproportionately loud voice in society):


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