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 49: Making sense of toxo and heme
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson discuss innate immune sensing of Toxoplasma gondii in mice, and heme metabolism in protozoan parasites.
Links for this episode:- Sensing Toxoplasma in mice (Cell Host Microbe)
- Make it, take it, or leave it (PLoS Path)
- Heme (Wikipedia)
- Letters read on TWiP 49
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