TWiV 326: Giving HIV a flat tyr
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
The sternutating TWiVers discuss preventing infection of cells and animals by a soluble CD4-CCR5 molecule that binds to HIV-1 virus particles.
Links for this episode- Dif-tor heh smusma (NY Times)
- Immunization preterm premature infants (Thanks, Johnye!)
- HIV and SHIV protection conferred by eCD4-Ig (Nature)
- Tyrosine sulfation (Wikipedia)
- GBV-C and Ebolavirus infection (J Virol)
- Letters read on TWiV 326
Alan - Toms River by Dan Fagin
Rich - Spin by Robert Charles
Vincent - FCC votes for net neutrality (ArsTechnica)
Neal - Why doesn't everyone get the flu vaccine?
Fernando - Zombie Jonas Salk hunts idiots
Neva - Physicists in biology
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