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TWiV 543: Stoned and senile

14 April 2019 by Vincent Racaniello

The TWiV team discusses Medusavirus, isolated from a hot spring in Japan, and induction of neurodegeneration by recurrent herpes simplex virus 1 infection of mice.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: alzheimer's disease, amoebae, dementia, giant virus, herpes simplex virus 1, histone, horizontal gene transfer, Medusavirus, memory loss, mouse model, NCLDV, neurodegereration, reactivation, viral, virology, virus, viruses

TWiV 530: Quiet please!

13 January 2019 by Vincent Racaniello

Steve Goff returns to TWiV to discuss the work of his laboratory on how retroviral genomes are silenced in infected cells.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: DNA integration, histone, histone acetylation, histone methylation, HUSH complex, NP220, retrovirus, transcriptional silencing, viral, virology, virus

TWiV 369: Camel runny noses and other JNK

27 December 2015 by Vincent Racaniello

On the latest episode of the science show This Week in Virology, a swarm of virologists discusses testing of a MERS coronavirus vaccine for camels, and how a neuronal stress pathway reactivates herpes simplex virus.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: camel, chromatin, coronavirus, herpes simplex virus, herpesvirus, histone, immunity, JNK, MERS, MERS-CoV, methyl/phospho switch, methylation, neuronal stress, phosphorylation, reactivation, shedding, vaccine, viral, virology, virus, viruses

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