TWiV 321: aTRIP and a pause
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Paul Duprex
Paul joins the TWiV team to discuss the current moratorium on viral research to alter transmission, range and resistance, infectivity and immunity, and pathogenesis.
Links for this episode- Wain-Hobson objects (one, two, three, four)
- Influenza H7N1 transmission experiments (J Virol)
- Epistemological perspective on aTRIP experiments (mBio)
- Limited scientific value and risk (mBio)
- Reply to limited scientific value (mBio)
- Risks and benefits of aTRIP experiments (mBio)
- Apocalypse as rhetorical device in aTRIP debate (mBio)
- Moratorium on aTRIP experiments
- Moratorium on aTRIP research (mBio)
- Risks of influenza virus transmission experiments (mBio)
- Reply to risks of influenza virus transmission experiments (mBio)
- Vagueness of moratorium on aTRIP experiments (mBio)
- Role of aTRIP experiments in vaccine recommendation (mBio)
- Use of aTRIP data for surveillance and preparedness (mBio)
- aTRIP towards lexiconic precision (mBio)
- October 2014 NSABB meeting on aTRIP
- NAS aTRIP meeting (YouTube)
- MERS-CoV aTRIP experiments exempted (ScienceInsider)
- aTRIP: time for a debate (Nat Rev Micro)
- Effect of aTRIP moratorium on trainee plans (mBio)
- Make the moratorium permanent (Sci Am)
- Image credirt: John Morris
- Letters read on TWiV 321
Alan - In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Paul - Saving the lives of our dogs (blog post)
Kathy - New all-female Lego set
Dickson - Female storm-chaser
Vincent - Despommier Photo Art
Jacob - Exaggeration in news and press releases (BMJ)
Peter - Quartet game (photos: one, two, three, four, five)
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