TWiV 96: Making viral DNA

August 22, 2010

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Dickson, and Rich continue Virology 101 with a discussion of how viruses with DNA genomes replicate their genetic information.

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  • Retrovirus

    Thought this virus cartoon was cute

    http://i.imgur.com/gHElA.jpg

  • Anonymous

    You haven’t forgotten about the video, right?

  • http://www.virology.ws profvrr

    Haven’t forgotten the video of TWiV 96 – hope to get it up this week.

  • http://www.virology.ws profvrr

    Great cartoon, thanks for sharing.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks. I forget how long good editing takes…
    I have delayed listening to the podcast because it sounded like the video would really help clarify what you and the others were saying.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the video!