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TWiV 100: TWiV catches a big fish

26 September 2010 by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and David Baltimore

Vincent, Alan, and Rich celebrate the 100th episode of the podcast This Week in Virology by talking about viruses with Nobel Laureate David Baltimore.

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Links for this episode:

  • David’s early papers on poliovirus and mengovirus RNA synthesis
  • Reverse transcriptase found by Baltimore and Temin (pdfs)
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975
  • David fishing (Picasa web album)
  • The David Baltimore asteroid belt
  • Cedric’s essay The ‘Death’ of a Virus (pdf)
  • Letters read on TWiV 100

Weekly Science Picks

Alan – TimeTree
Rich –
The neurons that shaped civilization
Vincent – Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore’s Life in Science by Shane Crotty

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: asilomar, david baltimore, mengovirus, nobel, podcast, poliovirus, polymerase, racaniello, recombinant dna, retrovirus, reverse transcriptase, rna synthesis, TWiV, viral, virology, virus

TWiV 55: Mice lie, monkeys exaggerate

25 October 2009 by Vincent Racaniello

twiv-200Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, Jason Rodriguez, and Rich Condit

In episode 55 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, the largest TWiV panel ever assembled takes on XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome, 2009 chemistry Nobel prizes for ribosome structure, finding new poxvirus vaccine candidates, a brouhaha over leaked Canadian data on influenza susceptibility, and transmission of H1N1 influenza to a pet ferret.

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Links for this episode:

  • XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome
  • XMRV not found in German prostate cancer
  • 2009 Chemistry Nobel Prize for ribosome structure
  • New poxvirus vaccines (e! Science and Virology articles – thanks Jim!)
  • Seasonal flu shots and susceptibility to 2009 H1N1 (one, two, and three)
  • Pet ferret gets H1N1 influenza from owner

Weekly Science Picks
Dick Nikon photomicroscopy contest winners at SciAm (Dick’s article on vertical farming)
Alan Make:
Rich BBC’s Planet Earth (DVD at Amazon)
Jason The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
Vincent
An Epidemic of Fear and Misinformants at Wired Magazine

Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@microbe.tv or leave voicemail at Skype: twivpodcast. You can also send articles that you would like us to discuss to delicious and tagging them with to:twivpodcast.

Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome, ferret, H1N1, influenza, nobel, pandemic, poxvirus, prostate cancer, ribosome, swine flu, TWiV, vaccine, viral, virology, virus, xmrv

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