by Vincent Racaniello on February 28, 2010
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich answer listener questions about maternal infection and fetal injury, viral gene therapy, eyeglasses and influenza, filtering prions from blood, eradication of rinderpest, Tamiflu resistance of H1N1 influenza, bacteriophages and the human microbiome, H1N1 vaccine recalls, human tumor viruses, RNA interference, and [...]
by Vincent Racaniello on January 24, 2010
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Marc Pelletier
Vincent, Alan, and Marc talk about chronic wasting disease of deer caused by prions, blocking the semen-derived enhancer of HIV infection with surfen, and making green transgenic rabbits using a lentiviral vector.
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by Vincent Racaniello on December 21, 2008
Host: Vincent Racaniello (Wikipedia entry, and photo with Hilary Koprowski)
Guests: Alan Dove and Angela Rasmussen
Vincent, Alan, and Angela discuss Kuru, prions in milk, ancient lentiviruses found in the chromosomes of lemurs, a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine failure in the 1960s, and recent outbreaks of H5N1 influenza in chickens.
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D. Carleton Gajdusek obituary in [...]
