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TWiP 22: Hookworm

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Photo Credit: David Scharf

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

On episode 22 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson discuss possibly the most socially and politically important nematode of humans, the hookworm Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus.

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TWiV 49: Viral genomes

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twiv-200Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier

On episode 49 of the podcast ‘This Week in Virology”, Vincent and Dick continue Virology 101 with a discussion of the seven different types of viral genomes, and how to use the pathway to mRNA to understand viral replication.

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Links for this episode:
Dick talks about hookworm on Radio Lab
Dick’s video page at BigThink
The seven types of viral genome
Animation of HIV replication (thanks axiomatically atypical!)
Changes in transcript abundance relating to colony collapse disorder in honey bee (thanks Judi!)

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 Dick Discovery Channel: Planet Green
 Vincent Influenza videos at BigThink: one, two, three, four, five, six

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