Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review ten compelling virology stories of 2011.

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Ten virology stories of 2011:

1. XMRV, CFS, and prostate cancer (TWiV 119, 123, 136, 150)
2. Influenza H5N1, ferrets, and the NSABB (TWiV 159)
3. The Panic Virus (TWiV 117)
4. Polio eradication (TWiV 127, 149)
5. Viral oncotherapy (TWiV 124, 131, 142, 156)
6. Hepatitis C virus (TWiV 130, 137, 141)
7. Zinc finger nuclease and HIV therapy (TWiV 144)
8. Bacteria help viruses (TWiV 154)
9. Human papillomaviruses (TWiV 126)
10. Combating dengue with Wolbachia (TWiV 115, 147)

Links for this episode:

• Honorable mention: Color me infected (TWiV 115)
• Lo-Alter retraction (PNAS)
• Propose an ASM General Meeting session
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 164

Weekly Science Picks

Rich - Fundamentals of Molecular Virology by Nicholas H. Acheson
Alan – Fetch, with Ruff Ruffman
Vincent – Year end reviews at Rule of 6ix and Contagions

Listener Pick of the Week

Garren – Trillion-frame-per-second video
Judi – iBioMagazine
Ricardo – Brain Picking’s 11 best science books of 2011

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review questions and comments from TWiV listeners.

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Links for this episode:

• CFIDS Association of America
• Research1st (CFS research)
• Chronic Fatigue Initiative (CFI)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 151

Weekly Science Picks

Alan – Aurora Australis from space
Vincent – Science360 Radio
Rich - Ghost Productions (demo and website)

Listener Pick of the Week

Sophie – Bacteria by Jonathan Coulton

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier

Vincent, Dickson, and Rich meant to do an all-email episode, but first they review results of the Blood XMRV Scientific Research Working Group, and partial retraction of the paper associating XMRV with chronic fatigue syndrome.

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Links for this episode:

• Partial retraction (Science)
• Failure to confirm (Science)
• False positive (Science)
• Why a partial retraction? (Retraction Watch)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 150

Weekly Science Picks

Dickson – The Tree of Life
Vincent – When do you fact-check article content with sources? (take as directed)
Rich – io9

Listener Pick of the Week

Luis – NIH videocasting and podcasting

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Roger Hendrix, Rachel Katzenellenbogen, and Harmit Malik

Vincent and guests Rachel Katzenellenbogen, Roger Hendrix, and Harmit Malik recorded TWiV #135 live at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans, where they discussed transformation and oncogenesis by human papillomaviruses, the amazing collection of bacteriophages on the planet, and the evolution of genetic conflict between virus and host.

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Links for this episode:

• Papillomavirus E6 proteins (Virology)
• Diversity of mycobacteriophages (PLoS One)
• Adaptive evolution of tetherin (J Virology)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 135
• Video of this episode – view below

Weekly Science Picks

Roger – Atomic structure of adenovirus by cry0-EM (Science)
Harmit – Syncytin knockout mice show role for endogenous retroviral gene (PNAS)
Vincent – Free science, one paper at a time by David Dobbs

Listener Pick of the Week

Mark  - Shot by Shot

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

Virologist Michelle Ozbun and the TWiV team review the biology of human papillomaviruses.

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Links for this episode:

• Human papillomavirus page at CDC
• Human papillomavirus vaccines page at CDC
• A better test for HPV (pdf)
• Human papillomaviruses and malignancy (review)
• Should smallpox stocks be destroyed? (poll at virology blog)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 126

Weekly Science Picks

Michelle – HIV-1 utilizes chemokine receptor CXCR4 to enter stem cells (PubMed)
Dickson – Bengladesh bans sale of palm sap (NY Times)
Rich – The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas (“On Warts” – pdf)
Alan – Planting Science – students, teachers, and scientists collaborate on botany experiments
Vincent – CIDRAP – Center for Disease Research and Policy

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, and Alan Dove

Vincent, Dick, and Alan talk about Nobel prizes for telomere research, bacteriophages that protect aphids from wasps, salicylates and pandemic influenza mortality, and hand washing.

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Links for this episode:

• Nobel Prizes for telomere research
• Bacteriophages encode toxins that protect aphids from wasps
• 14 year old dies after receiving HPV vaccine
• Salicylates and pandemic influenza mortality
• Canadian microbiologist says hand washing is not proven to prevent influenza
• Surgical mask vs N95 respirator for preventing influenza
• Americans unsure about receiving pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine
• DnaTube (thanks Jim!)
• Laboratory Director certification (pdf – thanks Megan!)
• Plant production of pharmaceuticals (pdf one and pdf two – thanks Ed!)

Weekly Science Picks
Alan scienceline
Dick Younger by Judith Sulzberger MD
Vincent FluView

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