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November 8, 2009
Host: Vincent Racaniello Vincent visited Scotch Plains – Fanwood High School and talked about viruses with high school biology students. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download TWiV #57 (68 MB .mp3, 94 minutes) Partial episode transcript at The Learning Blog Subscribe [...]
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November 1, 2009
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Cliff Mintz Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Cliff answer questions from listeners on swine influenza origins, transmission, virulence, and vaccines, HIV and AIDS, and more. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download TWiV #56 [...]
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October 25, 2009
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, Jason Rodriguez, and Rich Condit The largest TWiV panel ever assembled takes on XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome, 2009 chemistry Nobel prizes for ribosome structure, finding new poxvirus vaccine candidates, a brouhaha over leaked Canadian data on influenza susceptibility, and transmission of H1N1 influenza to a pet ferret. Sponsor: [...]
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October 18, 2009
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Lynn Enquist Vincent speaks with Lynn Enquist about his career in virology, moving from academia to industry and back. Along the way he did pioneering research on bacteriophage, participated in the birth of recombinant DNA technology, and studied herpesviruses. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit [...]
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October 11, 2009
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, and Alan Dove Vincent, Dick, and Alan talk about Nobel prizes for telomere research, bacteriophages that protect aphids from wasps, salicylates and pandemic influenza mortality, and hand washing. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download TWiV [...]
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September 27, 2009
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, and Alan Dove Vincent, Dick, and Alan (with a cameo appearance by Rich Condit) review the world’s largest Phase III study of a complex HIV vaccine candidate in Thailand, immunization of salmon against infectious salmon anemia virus, and an outbreak of blueberry shock virus in Michigan. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for [...]
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September 20, 2009
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Jason Rodriguez Vincent and Jason review influenza 2009 H1N1 vaccine trials and protection against the virus conferred by the 1976 swine flu vaccine, then move on to a virus called XMRV and its possible role in prostate cancer. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast [...]
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September 6, 2009
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Dick, Alan and Rich revisit a vaccinia virus lab accident and viral vaccines produced in plants, then talk about an iPhone app to track infectious diseases, flying foxes, and an inhaled measles vaccine. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, [...]
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August 30, 2009
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier Vincent and Dick discuss influenza virus-like particle vaccines produced in insect and plant cells, rapid sharing of influenza research, and answer listener questions about cytomegalovirus, viral evolution and symbiosis and much more. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast [Audio clip: view full post [...]
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August 23, 2009
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier Vincent and Dick continue virology 101 with a discussion of virus entry into cells, then answer reader email on colony collapse disorder and viruses that confer a benefit to their host. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast [Audio clip: view full post to [...]
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