TWiV 904: 50 years of reverse transcriptase
Vincent travels to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to speak with David Baltimore, John Coffin, and Harold Varmus about the discovery in 1970 of retroviral reverse transcriptase and its impact on life sciences research. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 29, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology reverse transcriptase rna tumor virus viral viruses Source Type: blogs
Richard R Ernst Lecture 2022 – Vincent Racaniello
It was my great honor to be selected as the Richard R Ernst Lecturer for 2022. The aim of the Richard R. Ernst Lecture is to strengthen the relationship and understanding between the sciences, society, and politics and to raise awareness for the questions and challenges our global society is facing today and will face in the future. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 28, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information COVID-19 pandemic public discourse Richard R Ernst science science communication viral virus viruses Source Type: blogs
TWiV Special: Monkeypox clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In this special episode, Dr. Griffin answers questions about the recent cases of monkeypox including their origin, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and overall risk. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 27, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology monkeypox smallpox vaccine viral virus viruses zoonosis Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: An Innumerate Response from Chalder to Hughes-Tuller Comments on Bogus Data Analysis
By David Tuller, DrPH Last year, King College London’s professor of cognitive behaviour therapy, Trudie Chalder, published another one of her extremely incompetent papers. This one is so statistically challenged as to be truly mind-boggling, even by Professor Chalder’s extremely low standards. A team of purportedly expert researchers has mangled descriptions of their own data […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 26, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Speaker at CDC Event Promotes CBT and “ Very Gradual ” GET
By David Tuller, DrPH The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a long history of missteps when it comes to the illness or cluster of illnesses currently called ME/CFS—as anyone who has read Osler’s Web knows. In the more recent past—2017–the agency dropped its unfortunate endorsement of the discredited GET/CBT treatment approach but […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 23, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized CDC Gluckman MSD Manual Up-to-Date Source Type: blogs
