Host: Vincent Racaniello

Vincent visited Scotch Plains – Fanwood High School and talked about viruses with high school biology students.

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Partial episode transcript at The Learning Blog

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Links for this episode:

• Vincent’s presentation (9.5 MB pdf)
• Thank you letters
• Oncolytic reovirus
• Does rhinovirus interfere with influenza?
• Dr. Fernandez has posted a partial transcript of this episode at The Learning Blog

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Matt Evans

Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Matt Evans converse about TED, the Wakefield autism controversy, 99 rhinovirus sequences, Marburg in the USA, and hepatitis C virus.

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Links for this episode:

• A photographer catches Bill Gates’ mosquitoes
• Joe DeRisi at TED
• Dengue virus entry movie
• Sequencing of 99 rhinovirus serotype genomes
• Two views of the Wakefield autism controversy here and here
• Marburg virus comes to the USA
• Human occludin is a hepatitis C virus entry factor required for infection of mouse cells

Science blog of the week: Not exactly rocket science by Ed Yong
Science podcast pick of the week: Neuropod
Science book of the week: Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology Edited by John Cairns, Guther S. Stent, and James D. Watson

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