Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove

Vincent and Alan review recent findings on the association of the retrovirus XMRV with ME/CFS, reassortment of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in swine, and where influenza viruses travel in the off-season.

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Links for this episode:

• Conflicting XMRV papers on hold
• Leak of PNAS paper
• CDC study on XMRV in CFS patients (Retrovirology) and Science update
• Where influenza viruses travel in the off season (EurekaAlert! and PLoS Pathogens)
• NPR article on Ebola siRNA treatment (thanks, Andreas!)
• Priming mechanism for reovirus entry (thanks, Agyeman-Badu!)
• Wired article on science PR (thanks, Dan!)
• Letters read on TWiV 89

Weekly Science Picks

Alan – Tree of Life graphic
Vincent - TEDx Oil Spill

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Saul Silverstein

Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Saul Silverstein revisit an ebolavirus needlestick accident, and discuss the role of TLR3 in formation of Negri bodies, a New England college closed by norovirus gastroenteritis, hand, foot, and mouth disease outbreak in China, and the exit of herpes simplex virus from latency by synthesis of VP16.

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Links for this episode:

Science blog of the week: Biocurious
Science podcast pick of the week: NPR’s Science Friday
Science book of the week: A Conspiracy of Cells by Michael Gold
Dick’s pick: Andros Island Bonefish Club
Saul’s pick: Secret Science Club

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Luis Villarreal

Vincent, Alan, and Luis talk about rabies in Viet Nam and Angola, needle-stick infections with ebolavirus and West Nile virus, and viral evolution.

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Links for this episode:

• Furious rabies after an atypical exposure
• Rabies outbreak in Angola
• Ebolavirus needle stick injury in Germany
• West Nile virus needle stick injury in South Africa
• Antibody response to smallpox vaccine in humans (including Dr. Villarreal)
• The chemical formula for poliovirus is:
• C_332,652H_492,388N_98,245O_131,196P_7,501S_2,340
• Because poliovirus is a quasispecies the number of atoms is a population average.
• Review article: Ten Reasons to Exclude Viruses from the Tree of Life
• Origin and Evolution of Viruses, second edition, edited by Esteban Domingo
• Origin of Group Identity by Luis Villarreal

Science blog of the week: Small Things Considered by Moselio Schaechter and Merry Youle
Science podcast pick of the week: The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe
Science book of the week: Viruses and the Evolution of Life by Luis Villarreal

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