On episode #318 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiV gang reviews ten fascinating, compelling, and riveting virology stories from 2014.
You can find TWiV #318 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.
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TWiV 272: Give peas a chance
On episode #272 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiV team describes aphid control by using a viral capsid protein to deliver a spider toxin to plants, and a human endogenous retrovirus that enhances expression of a neuronal gene.
You can find TWiV #272 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.
TWiV 268: Transmission is inevitable
On episode #268 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, Kathy, and Ashlee discuss fomites in physicians offices, plant virus factories involved in aphid transmission, and clues from the bat genome about flight and immunity.
You can find TWiV #268 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.
TWiV #70: Hacking aphid behavior
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Alan Dove
On episode #70 of the podcast ‘This Week in Virology’, Vincent, Dickson, and Alan consider a broad spectrum antiviral against enveloped viruses, how a plant virus induces chemical signals in the host to maximize its spread, a new way to preserve viral vaccines at tropical temperatures, and the continuing story of XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome.
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Links for this episode:
- Broad spectrum antiviral against enveloped viruses
- Chemical signals induced by a plant virus attract insect vectors to inferior hosts
- New vaccine technology to make viral vaccines stable at tropical temperatures
- Second UK study fails to find XMRV in chronic fatigue syndrome patients (pdf)
- Nature podcast with Simon Singh and petition (thanks André!)
- Letter on Wolbachia and bees (thanks Tom!)
- Dickson fishing in Argentina (jpg)
Weekly Science Picks
Dickson Chemical Ecology – edited by Thomas Eisner and Jerrold Meinwald
Alan Scripps Center for Mass Spectrometry
Vincent Folding@home (thanks Jesper!)
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TWiV 53: The ends justify the means
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, and Alan Dove
In episode #53 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, 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.
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Links for this episode:
- Nobel Prizes for telomere research
- Bacteriophages encode toxins that protect aphids from wasps
- 14 year old dies after receiving HPV vaccine
- Salicylates and pandemic influenza mortality
- Canadian microbiologist says hand washing is not proven to prevent influenza
- Surgical mask vs N95 respirator for preventing influenza
- Americans unsure about receiving pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine
- DnaTube (thanks Jim!)
- Laboratory Director certification (pdf – thanks Megan!)
- Plant production of pharmaceuticals (pdf one and pdf two – thanks Ed!)
Weekly Science Picks
Alan scienceline
Dick Younger by Judith Sulzberger MD
Vincent FluView
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