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TWiV 167: It starts with a cough

January 22, 2012

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove The complete TWiVome deconstructs the movie Contagion. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 167 (53 MB .mp3, 88  minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device [...]

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TWiV 144: HIV gets the (zinc) finger

July 31, 2011

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove Vincent, Rich, and Alan discuss live blogging of scientific meetings, the current outbreak of Hendra virus is Australia, and using zinc finger nucleases to make HIV-resistant CD4 cells. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 144 (75 MB .mp3, 104 minutes). Subscribe to [...]

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TWiV 24: Viroids

March 15, 2009

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Hamish Young Vincent, Alan, and Hamish Young discuss bacteriophages in viral vaccines, enteroviruses and diabetes, inhibition of Hendra and Nipah virus replication by the malaria drug chloroquine, and viroids. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #24 (41 MB .mp3,  59 minutes) Links for this [...]

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TWiV 6: Latest outbreaks of polio, west Nile and eastern equine encephalitis, Hendra, and norovirus

October 29, 2008

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #6 (19.8 MB .mp3) Links for this episode: Dickson was at Pop!Tech last week. Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon. US Geological Survey Disease Maps. CDC page on Hendra and Nipah viruses. The flying fox (Google image search). Vincent’s virology course. [...]

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