This Week in Virology

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TWiV #79 - Red hot chili viruses


On episode #79 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Alan converse about making published science accessible to everyone, global eradication of poliomyelitis, and whether a plant virus can cause disease in humans.

Host links Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove

Links for this episode:
  • Making published science accessible to everyone (Nature News)
  • Federal Research Public Access Act
  • Is disease eradication a waste of money?
  • Do we have an ethical obligation to eradicate polio?
  • Signs of progress in polio eradication (NY Times)
  • Polio eradication: Harder than it looks (Fortner)
  • Gates rethinks his war on polio (WSJ)
  • Asymptomatic wild-type poliovirus infection in immune children (J Inf Dis)
  • Can a plant virus cause disease in humans? (PLoS One)
  • Replication of tomato spotted wilt virus in HeLa cells (PNAS)
  • Glycine detected in comet (thanks Vincent!)
  • Letters read on TWiV 79
Weekly science picks:

Alan Data.gov
Vincent foldit


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 April 25, 2010  1h11m