Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit

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

Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #106 (69 MB .mp3, 95 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• Figures for this episode (pdf)
• Letters read on TWiV 106
• Video of this episode – download .mov or .wmv or view below

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Rich – Google Health
Dickson – The Neandertal genome
Vincent – Lab techniques videos (thanks, Erik!)

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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.

Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #96 (65 MB .mp3, 90 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• Figures for this episode (pdf)
• RNA silencing as a plant immune system (Trends in Genetics)
• Photos of transgenic petunia (PLoS Biology)
• Letters read on TWiV 96
• Video of this episode – download .mov or .wmv or view below

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Rich – Breast milk sugars give infants a protective coat (NY Times and PNAS article)
Vincent – The Great American University by Jonathan R. Cole

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich talk about US government contract for freeze-dried smallpox vaccine, red squirrels in the UK threatened by poxvirus, and Marseillevirus, another DNA virus from amoebae built for comfort and speed.

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Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #63 (64 MB .mp3, 89 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• US Government awards contract to Bavarian Nordic for freeze-dried smallpox vaccine (pdf and clinical trial)
• UK red squirrels threatened by poxvirus: news article one and two, epidemiology and experimental infection
• Another huge virus from amoebae (Wired article, PNAS article, review article)
• Discussion on rabies bait vaccine at virology blog, and status of the program
• List of human viral diseases (pdf)

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Rich Infectious Awearables
Alan Darwine
Vincent Microbial Art

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Hosts:Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier

Vincent and Dick continue Virology 101 with a discussion of the seven different types of viral genomes, and how to use the pathway to mRNA to understand viral replication.

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Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #49 (45 MB .mp3, 62 minutes)

Links for this episode:

• TWiV 49 transcript (pdf)
• Dick talks about hookworm on Radio Lab
• Dick’s video page at BigThink
• The seven types of viral genome
• Animation of HIV replication (thanks axiomatically atypical!)
• Changes in transcript abundance relating to colony collapse disorder in honey bee (thanks Judi!)

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Dick Discovery Channel: Planet Green
Vincent Influenza videos at BigThink: one, two, three, four, five, six

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