TWiV 113: Alan Rein on XMRV
- December 26, 2010
- Tagged as: CFS, prostate cancer, retrovirus, viral, virology, virus, XMRV
Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss the retrovirus XMRV with retrovirologist Alan Rein of the National Cancer Institute.
On episode 99 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent tours the 50th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in Boston, speaking with exhibitors and visitors, including Professors Derek Smith, Michael Schmidt, Frederick Hayden, and Myra McClure.
Vincent, Alan, and Rich review the finding of murine leukemia virus-related sequences in the blood of CFS patients and healthy donors, laboratory inventories for wild poliovirus containment, weaving high-performance viral batteries into fabric for the military, and a case of human rabies in Indiana.
Vincent, Alan, and Rich speak with Ila Singh about the new human retrovirus XMRV, and how her laboratory is studying its association with prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Vincent and Alan review recent findings on the association of the retrovirus XMRV with ME/CFS, reassortment of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in swine, and where influenza viruses travel in the off-season.
Vincent speaks with Stephen Goff about the origin of the retrovirus XMRV and its association with prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Vincent, Dickson, and Alan consider a broad spectrum antiviral against enveloped viruses, how a plant virus induces chemical signals in the host to maximize its spread, a new way to preserve viral vaccines at tropical temperatures, and the continuing story of XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome.
TWiV 65: Matt’s bats
- January 10, 2010
- Tagged as: bat, bornavirus, CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, endogenous virus, TWiV, viral, virology, virome, virus, XMRV
Vincent, Alan, and Matt discuss a project to study the RNA virome of Northeastern American bats, failure to detect XMRV in UK chronic fatigue syndrome patients, and DNA of bornavirus, an RNA virus, in mammalian genomes.
TWiV 64: Ten virology stories of 2009
- January 3, 2010
- Tagged as: AIDS, antarctic virus, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, colony collapse, dengue, H1N1, hiv, honeybee, influenza, mosquito, Polio, poliomyelitis, poliovirus, polyomavirus, poxvirus, seroepidemiology, squirrel, swine flu, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus, XMRV
Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss ten compelling virology stories of 2009.
The largest TWiV panel ever assembled takes on XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome, 2009 chemistry Nobel prizes for ribosome structure, finding new poxvirus vaccine candidates, a brouhaha over leaked Canadian data on influenza susceptibility, and transmission of H1N1 influenza to a pet ferret.