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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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On episode #214 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Kathy discuss how coagulation factor X binding to adenovirus activates the innate immune system, and a novel polyomavirus associated with brain tumors in raccoons.
You can find TWiV #214 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.
Hosts: 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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Rich – The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
Alan – Comet rise
Vincent – TWiV iPhone case
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Ronnie – How fungi celebrate Christmas
Kevin – EcoCyc app
Gabriel – ImmGen app
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Patrick Moore
The TWiV team speaks with Patrick Moore about his discovery, with Yuan Chang, of two human tumor viruses, Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus and Merkel cell polyomavirus.
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Patrick – The Theory That Would Not Die by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Dickson – Foodborne illness acquired in the US (Emerging Inf Dis)
Rich – GATTACA
Alan – Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Vincent –Â Boxwave capacitative stylus
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Neva – 10+1 top science apps
Ricardo – Where’s the outrage?
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