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TWiV 625: Fred Murphy, virologist for all seasons

12 June 2020 by Vincent Racaniello

Vincent and Rich visit Fred Murphy to hear about his wide-ranging career in virology, spanning many institutions, involving dangerous viruses like rabies virus, Ebolavirus (he took that famous iconic image), Marburg virus, Lassa virus, coronaviruses, and later writing a history of the field.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: ebolavirus, Fred Murphy, histopathology, marburg virus, rabies virus, viral, virology, virology history, virus, viruses

TWiV 488: Who nose if it will work in humans

8 April 2018 by Vincent Racaniello

The TWiV team reveals that recent mumps virus outbreaks in the US are due to waning vaccine efficacy, and an intranasally delivered small interfering RNA that controls West Nile infection in the brain.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: encephalitis, epidemiology, immunity, mumps, mumps outbreaks, nasal spray, olfactory mucosa, rabies virus, siRNA, vaccine efficacy, vaccine waning, viral, virology, virus, viruses, West Nile virus

TWiV 461: Gotta trace them all!

1 October 2017 by Vincent Racaniello

The TWiVers discuss the declining readability of scientific texts, and review the use of self-inactivating rabies virus for tracing neural circuits.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: circuit architecture, Cre recombinase, Flesch Reading Ease, FLIP recombinase, jargon, monosynaptic transmission, neural circuit, neural circuit tracing, neural tracing, neurobiology, neuroscience, New Dale-Chall Readability Formula, proteasome, rabies virus, readability, science communication, scientific text, viral, virology, virus, viruses

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