tumor virus

TWiV 163: What Rous wrought

December 25, 2011

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review the 100 year old finding by Peyton Rous of a transmissible sarcoma of chickens, a discovery that ushered in the era of tumor virology. Please help us by taking our listener survey. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to [...]

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TWiV 160: Moore tumor viruses

December 4, 2011

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Patrick Moore The TWiV team speaks with Patrick Moore about his discovery, with Yuan Chang, of two human tumor viruses, Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus and Merkel cell polyomavirus. Please help us by taking our listener survey. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 160 [...]

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TWiV 71: Please Mr. Postman

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, [...]

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