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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Eric F. Donaldson
Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Eric F. Donaldson discuss a new test for influenza H5N1, poliovirus in Minnesota, Koala retrovirus, batteries made from viruses, and SARS.
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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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Bacteriophages in viral vaccines
Presence of enteroviral VP1 protein in pancreatic islets of diabetics
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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.
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Sem•i•nal (adjective): strongly influencing later developments.
Note: There are two HPV vaccines on the market: Gardasil (quadrivalent, types 6, 11, 16, 18) and Cervarix (bivalent, types 16 and 18).
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Host: Vincent Racaniello Guest: Jeremy Luban
Vincent and Jeremy, in Saanen, Switzerland, review the 19th Challenge in Virology meeting, and implications of a new HIV-1 sequence from 1960 for the origin of AIDS.
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NY Times article on Offit vaccine book.
Nature paper on new 1960 HIV-1 sequence.
Massive polio immunization in Pakistan.
PLoS paper on T [...]
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