Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier Guest: Saul Silverstein Vincent, Dick, and Saul talk about discoveries in virology that have had a major impact on the field. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #17 (37 MB .mp3, 57 minutes) Links for this episode: Sem•i•nal (adjective): strongly influencing later developments. Note: [...]
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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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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #2 (22.9 MB .mp3 file) Links for this episode: polioeradication.org for the latest information on the global state of polio. Abstract of the Science article on engineering a new polio vaccine: “Virus attenuation by genome-scale changes in codon [...]
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