TWiP is a monthly netcast about eukaryotic parasites. Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier, science Professors from Columbia University, deconstruct parasites, how they cause illness, and how you can prevent infections.
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TWiP 61: Some creep crept into the crypt and crapped
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson review examples of paleoparasitology, the detection of parasites in archaeological material.
Links for this episode:- T. rex had Trichomonas (PLoS One)
- King Richard III had worms (CNN)
- Discovery of toilets in Japan (Mem Inst Os Cruz)
- Paleoparasitology in the Old World (Mem Inst Os Cruz)
- Soils from Seoul (J Arachael Sci)
- Ancient parasite infections in Old World (pdf)
- Ascaris in coprolites (Mem Inst Os Cruz)
- Human intestinal parasites in the past (Mem Inst Os Cruz)
- Letters read on TWiP 61
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