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About viruses and viral disease
Vincent travels to Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA to speak with Nick Buchkovich and Leslie Parent about their careers and their work on human cytomegalovirus and retroviruses.
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On episode #241 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, Rich and Kathy review how human placental trophoblasts confer viral resistance via exosome-mediated delivery of microRNAs, and isolation of the first human influenza virus in 1933.
You can find TWiV #241 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.
On episode #193 of the science show This Week in Virology, recorded at the 31st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology in Madison, Vincent, Rich, Carolyn, and Sara discussed genetic conflict between viral and human genes, and how the placenta protects the fetus against viral infection.
You can find TWiV #193 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.