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A $707 million investment in cell-based influenza vaccine by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The United States has provided a large sum of money to pharmaceutical giant Novartis to produce influenza vaccines grown in cell culture. According to CIDRAP : Nova ... Read on »

A bad day for science by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The virologists who carried out the contentious experiments on influenza H5N1 transmission in ferrets have agreed to remove certain details from their manuscript, accordi ... Read on »

A DNA virus with the capsid of an RNA virus by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Viral genomes are unusual because they can be based on RNA or DNA, in contrast to all cellular life forms, which have DNA as their genetic information. An unusual new v ... Read on »

A mad cow in America by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine A dairy cow in California is the fourth known American case of mad cow disease, which is caused by prions, infectious agents composed only of protein (the story hit the p ... Read on »

A new coronavirus isolated from humans by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine A new coronavirus has been isolated from two individuals with severe respiratory illness. It is different from the SARS coronavirus, but health officials are nonetheless ... Read on »

A new rhabdovirus from a patient with hemorrhagic fever by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Hemorrhagic fevers are among the most graphic viral diseases, inspiring movies, novels, and a general fear of infection. They are characterized by an abrupt onset and a ... Read on »

A new target for hepatitis C virus by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine When infection with hepatitis C virus goes from acute to chronic , severe liver disease may occur which requires organ transplantation. Nearly 200 million people are ch ... Read on »

A new type of enveloped virus? by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine All known virus particles can be placed into one of two general categories: enveloped or non-enveloped. Viruses that fall into the former category are characterized by ... Read on »

A new virology course at Columbia University by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Tomorrow is the start of my new virology course at Columbia University. The course, Biology W3310, is aimed at advanced undergraduates and will be taught at the Morningsi ... Read on »

A plant virus that switched to vertebrates by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Viruses can be transmitted to completely new host species that they have not previously infected. Usually host defenses stop the infection before any replication and adap ... Read on »

A spike for piercing the cell membrane by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Some viruses that infect bacteria (bacteriophages) deliver their DNA into the host cell with an amazing injection machine. The tailed bacteriophages (such as T4, illustra ... Read on »

A viral mashup in snakes by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine If you know anything about snakes you might be familiar with snake inclusion body disease, or IBD. This transmissible and fatal disease affects snakes of a variety of s ... Read on »

A virology course at Columbia University by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine My virology course at Columbia University, Biology W3310, has begun. This course, which I taught for the first time in 2009, is aimed at advanced undergraduates and wil ... Read on »

A virology course for all by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The spring semester has begun at Columbia University, which means that it is time to teach my virology course. The fourth annual installment of my virology course, ... Read on »

Aaron J. Shatkin, 77 by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Aaron J. Shatkin was well known for his work on reoviruses beginning in the 1960s in his laboratory at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in Nutley, NJ and then a ... Read on »

ACIP recommendations on monovalent H1N1 vaccine by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has released its recommendations on the use of influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent vaccine. Here is my summary of ... Read on »

Adjuvant effect on H1N1 vaccine by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine There has been a great deal of discussion about the use of adjuvants to improve the immunogenicity of vaccines against the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza strain. What effe ... Read on »

Admit when you are wrong by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine One of the lessons learned from XMRV is that it’s important for scientists to admit when they are wrong. That is why I took down the image originally posted with TWiV #15 ... Read on »

American science and the budget crisis by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Eugenie Samuel Reich speculates about the effect on US science should the debt ceiling not be raised by 2 August 2011: Republicans have made it clear that they wil ... Read on »

An antiviral for enveloped viruses by Vincent Racaniello Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Broad spectrum antibiotics are available that act against a wide range of bacteria, including both gram-positive and gram-negative species. In contrast, our antiviral ars ... Read on »

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