Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove
The complete TWiVome deconstructs the movie Contagion.
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Dickson – Guinea Pig Doctors by Jon Franklin
Rich – Learn to appreciate technology and Everythings amazing and nobodys happy (YouTube)
Alan – JD Hooker slide collection
Vincent – iTunes U app and iBooks Author
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Judi – Makers of Many Things by Eva March Tappan
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove
Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review cell proteins essential for entry of hepatitis C, Ebola, and measles viruses.
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Dickson – What are you swimming with?
Rich – Twelve monkeys
Alan – Kindle Touch
Vincent – Microbe news (thanks to Dave Winer)
Listener Pick of the Week
Eric – The Nature of Things with David Suzuki
Lance – Trials and Errors (Wired)
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove
Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan answer listener questions about XMRV, cytomegalovirus, latency, shingles vaccine, myxomavirus and rabbits, and more.
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Dickson – Creation
Rich – America’s Science Decline
Alan – Out of context science
Vincent – The Scientist Top 10 Innovations 2011
Listener Pick of the Week
Jim – Christoph Adami: Finding life we can’t imagine (TED)
Tim – Patient Zero (Radiolab)
Mary – Natural Obsessions by Natalie Angier
Jimmy – Science Exchange
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove
Vincent, Alan, and Rich review ten compelling virology stories of 2011.
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Ten virology stories of 2011:
- XMRV, CFS, and prostate cancer (TWiV 119, 123, 136, 150)
- Influenza H5N1, ferrets, and the NSABB (TWiV 159)
- The Panic Virus (TWiV 117)
- Polio eradication (TWiV 127, 149)
- Viral oncotherapy (TWiV 124, 131, 142, 156)
- Hepatitis C virus (TWiV 130, 137, 141)
- Zinc finger nuclease and HIV therapy (TWiV 144)
- Bacteria help viruses (TWiV 154)
- Human papillomaviruses (TWiV 126)
- Combating dengue with Wolbachia (TWiV 115, 147)
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Rich - Fundamentals of Molecular Virology by Nicholas H. Acheson
Alan – Fetch, with Ruff Ruffman
Vincent – Year end reviews at Rule of 6ix and Contagions
Listener Pick of the Week
Garren – Trillion-frame-per-second video
Judi – iBioMagazine
Ricardo – Brain Picking’s 11 best science books of 2011
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove
Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review the 100 year old finding by Peyton Rous of a transmissible sarcoma of chickens, a discovery that ushered in the era of tumor virology.
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Rich – The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
Alan – Comet rise
Vincent – TWiV iPhone case
Listener Pick of the Week
Ronnie – How fungi celebrate Christmas
Kevin – EcoCyc app
Gabriel – ImmGen app
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove
Vincent, Rich, and Alan continue Virology 101 with a discussion of transcription, the process of making mRNA from a DNA template.
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Rich – 3D vaccinia virion
Alan – Happy Holidays from NOAA (YouTube)
Vincent – 17 year old wins $100,000 science prize
Listener Pick of the Week
Sarah – Critical Thinking (pdf), diagnosing respiratory infections by gene signature (Cell Host Micro), and One Health Initiative (CDC page)
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Gabriel Victora
Vincent, Rich, Alan and Gabriel review the production of antibodies by B cells, and how high affinity antibodies are selected in the germinal centers of lymph nodes.
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Gabriel – Antibody-based protection against HIV (Nature)
Rich – Contact
Alan – Flu shot dystonia (YouTube)
Vincent – Sciflies and RocketHub
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Neva – Virus and retrovirus
Ayesha – The Life Scientific (BBC)
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Patrick Moore
The TWiV team speaks with Patrick Moore about his discovery, with Yuan Chang, of two human tumor viruses, Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus and Merkel cell polyomavirus.
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Patrick – The Theory That Would Not Die by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Dickson – Foodborne illness acquired in the US (Emerging Inf Dis)
Rich – GATTACA
Alan – Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Vincent - Boxwave capacitative stylus
Listener Pick of the Week
Neva – 10+1 top science apps
Ricardo – Where’s the outrage?
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Vincent, Alan, and Rich review concern over an influenza H5N1 transmission experiment, and a new host defense protein against RNA viruses.
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Rich – Livescribe Smartpen
Alan – Royal Society journal archive
Vincent - Chronic fatigue syndrome and the CDC by Dave Tuller
Listener Pick of the Week
Judi – Top 7 in Microbiology
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alice Telesnitsky, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent and Rich visit the Microbiology and Immunology Department at the University of Michigan Medical School, and speak with Alice and Kathy about their work on HIV genome dimerization, and packaging and pathogenesis of mouse adenovirus.
Model of poliovirus bound to CD155 made by Stefan Taube.
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Alice – Banvard’s Folly by Paul S. Collins
Kathy – The world at seven billion
Rich – The Princess Bride
Vincent - Center for the history of microbiology
Listener Pick of the Week
Tim – Dead Ends to Somewhere by Richard L. Ward
Don – Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science (TED)
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