Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener questions about vaccinia virus, fungal viruses, synthetic viruses, influenza vaccine, HeLa cells, multiplicity of infection, and much more.

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Links for this episode:

• Distribution of glycoproteins on virion surface (paper 1, paper 2) – thanks, Conor!
• Susceptibility of cancer cell lines to tanapox (thanks, Cheryl!)
• Poxvirus family tree
• Sugar, the bitter truth (YouTube) – thanks, Mary!
• BBC podcast: Artificial life (thanks, Sam!)
• Arthritis and influenza at CDC
• Multiplicity of infection at virology blog
• Virus-like particle vaccines (thanks, Sheldon!)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 118

Weekly Science Picks

Alan – What you need to know about infectious disease
Rich – Bad Project (YouTube)
Vincent – Federal research center will help develop medicines

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Dickson discuss bacteria that can utilize arsenic in place of phosphorus, the passing of Frank Fenner, polio outbreak in The Congo, solving criminal cases of HIV transmission, and classifying viruses by capsid structure.

Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #110 (68 MB .mp3, 93 minutes). To download, right-click or control-click on the link, then select save as.

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Links for this episode:

• Bacteria that utilize arsenic (Ed Yong’s view)
• Frank Fenner passes away
• Smallpox and its eradication – the ‘red book’ (pdf)
• Polio outbreak in The Congo (virus isolation)
• Solving criminal cases with HIV evolution (press release)
• Definition of paraphyly
• Order to the viral universe
• International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 110

Weekly Science Picks

Dickson – CDC’s West Nile virus case count for 2010
Rich – The red bees of Red Hook
Alan – Arsenic-based life at XKCD
Vincent – PLoS iPad app

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Stephen Morse

Vincent, Alan, and Stephen Morse discuss progressive vaccinia in a smallpox vaccinee, arsenic and influenza in mice, facemasks and flu transmission, and antigenic and genetic analyses of the new H1N1 influenza virus.

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Links for this episode:

Weekly Science Picks
Alan Org-Mode
Vincent Human/Swine A/H1N1 Influenza Origins and Evolution
Stephen The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

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