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TWiV 518: Hershey’s viruses

4 November 2018 by Vincent Racaniello


hershey virus

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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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: ESCRT pathway, exosome, Gag protein, genome packaging, HCMV, HIV-1, human cytomegalovirus, late domain, nuclear experience, retrovirus, rous sarcoma virus, viral, virology, virus, viruses

TWiV 400: Harold ‘400’ Varmus, a scientist for all seasons

31 July 2016 by Vincent Racaniello

The TWiV team is together in New York City for a conversation with Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus about his remarkable career in science.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: cancer, Harold Varmus, Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize, oncogene, ras, rous sarcoma virus, sarcoma, src, tyrosine kinase, viral, virology, virus, viruses

TWiV 163: What Rous wrought

25 December 2011 by Vincent Racaniello

fungal christmas treeHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove

Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review the 100 year old finding by Peyton Rous of a transmissible sarcoma of chickens, a discovery that ushered in the era of tumor virology.

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Links for this episode:

  • Transmissible sarcoma of the fowl (J Exp Med)
  • Sarcoma of fowl transmissible by agent separable from tumor cells (J Exp Med)
  • 100 years of Rous sarcoma virus (J Exp Med)
  • Early history of tumor virology (PNAS)
  • Ralph Nader recommends The Vertical Farm
  • Propose an ASM General Meeting session
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  • Letters read on TWiV 163

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: cancer, peyton rous, reverse transcriptase, rous sarcoma virus, sarcoma, src, tumor virus, viral, virology, virus

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