TWiV 187: The mummy
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit
Vincent and Rich discuss recovery of a hepatitis B viral genome from a 16th century Korean mummy, and personal omics profiling of an individual over a 14 month period.
Links for this episode:- Tracing HBV to the 16th century (Hepatology)
- HBV on TWiV
- Precautions with ancient DNA (Science)
- Personal omics profile over 14 months (Cell)
- A geneticist's research turns personal (NY Times)
- Mike Snyder on Futures in Biotech
- The DASH diet
- TWiV on Facebook
- Letters read on TWiV 187
Rich - The Checklist by Atul Gawande
Vincent - Artologica
David - Cracking your genetic code (Nova)
Josh - The nuclearization of biology is a threat to health and security (pdf)
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