This Week in Virology » Lister http://www.twiv.tv A netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:54:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 TWiV 35: Much achoo about nothing http://www.twiv.tv/2009/06/07/twiv-35-much-achoo-about-nothing/ http://www.twiv.tv/2009/06/07/twiv-35-much-achoo-about-nothing/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:01:49 +0000 Vincent Racaniello http://www.twiv.tv/?p=479



Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dick Despommier, and Richard Kessin

Vincent, Alan, Dick, and Richard Kessin talk about Lujo virus, a new arenavirus, influenza, WHO rewriting pandemic rules, adjuvants, and a brief history of microbiology.

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Links for this episode:

  • Lujo virus, a new arenavirus
  • Is CDC too optimistic about influenza?
  • WHO to rewrite pandemic rules
  • Adjuvant at wikipedia
  • Avery, MacLeod, McCarty 50th anniversary (pdf)
  • Pasteur’s swan-neck flask

pasteur-swan-neck-flask

Broth was placed in a flask, boiled, and the neck was heated and drawn out. The broth was open to the air, but remained sterile as long as microbe-containing dust collected in the neck and did not reach the liquid.

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