TWiV 420: Orthogonal vectors
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiV gurus describe how to use an orthogonal translation system to produce infectious but replication-incompetent influenza vaccines.
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- Local Zika virus transmission in Texas
- Texaszika.org
- Local dengue virus transmission in Texas (EID)
- No more Zika virus transmission in Florida (FL DOH)
- Dengue virus antibodies enhance Zika virus infection (Clin Trans Imm)
- Infectious, replication incompetent influenza virus vaccine (Science)
- Pyrrolysl-tRNA synthetase (Biochem Biophys Acta)
- History of nonsense suppression (Stan Maloy)
- Suppression of poliovirus amber mutant (Cell)
- Remembering mumps (PLoS Path)
- Letters read on TWiV 420
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