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

The complete TWiVome deconstructs the movie Contagion.

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Links for this episode:

• R0 explained (pdf)
• Hendra and Nipah encephalitis (CDC)
• Contagion (IMdB)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 167

Weekly Science Picks

Dickson – Guinea Pig Doctors by Jon Franklin
Rich – Learn to appreciate technology and Everythings amazing and nobodys happy (YouTube)
Alan – JD Hooker slide collection
Vincent – iTunes U app and iBooks Author

Listener Pick of the Week

Judi – Makers of Many Things by Eva March Tappan

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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.

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Links for this episode:

• Live blogging scientific meetings (virology blog)
• Cross reactive Hendra antibodies in dog (article one and two and three)
• Dog owner replies
• Map of Hendra virus outbreak 2011
• Summaries of current Hendra virus outbreak (one and two)
• Recombinant Hendra glycoprotein vaccine protects ferrets (Vaccine)
• Making HIV resistant CD4 cells with zinc finger nucleases (PLoS Pathogens)
• Surveyor nuclease assay
• NCIS ‘Toxic’ summary
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 144

Weekly Science Picks

Alan – Bugscope
Rich – Vaccine adverse events: Causal or coincidental? (Lancet)
Vincent – West Nile Story by Dickson Despommier (Kindle edition)

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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.

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Links for this episode:

• Bacteriophages in viral vaccines
• Presence of enteroviral VP1 protein in pancreatic islets of diabetics
• Chloroquine inhibits Hendra and Nipah virus replication
• Review on viroids discovered by TO Diener
• Mumps in Ireland
• CDC information on EBV (thanks Megan!) and Journal of Virology paper (thanks Everett!)

Science blog of the week: The Weekly Virus
Science podcast pick of the week: NIH Research Radio Podcast
Science book of the week: Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore’s Life in Science by Shane Crotty

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

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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.
• Vincent’s texbook is Principles of Virology, third edition, ASM Press (available December 2008).

Science podcast pick of the week: Brain Science Podcast.

Episode transcript (pdf)

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