TWiV is a weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Brought to you by four university professors and a science writer.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 69 days 14 hours 36 minutes
TWiV 288: ebircsnart esreveR
Hosts: , , , , and The Twivsters discuss how reverse transcriptase encoded in the human genome might produce DNA copies of RNA viruses in infected cells. Links for this episode Should variola virus be ? (poll at...
TWiV 287: A potentially pandemic podcast
Hosts: , , , , and Matt updates the TWiV team on MERS-coronavirus, and joins in a discussion of whether we should further regulate research on potentially pandemic pathogens. Links for this episode MERS stories...
TWiV 286: Boston TWiV party
Hosts: and Guests: Julie and Vincent and Alan meet up with Julie and Paul at the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston, to talk about their work on the pathogenesis of poliovirus and...
TWiV 285: Hokies go viral
Host: Guests: and Vincent meets up with XJ and Sarah at Virginia Tech to talk about their work on viruses of swine and rotaviruses. Links for this episode (Int J Env Res Pub Health) Porcine and...
TWiV 284: By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes
Hosts: , , , and The TWiV team discusses how skin scarification promotes a nonspecific immune response, and whether remaining stocks of smallpox virus should be destroyed. Links for this episode protects against...
TWiV 283: No Reston for the weary
Hosts: , , , and Guest: Jens speaks with the TWiV team about filoviruses, including the recent Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea. Links for this episode Review of (Brit Med J) Ebola...
TWiV 282: Tamiflu and tenure too
Hosts: , , , and The TWiV team reviews a meta-analysis of clinical trial reports on using Tamiflu for influenza, and suggestions on how to rescue US biomedical research from its systemic flaws. Links for this...
TWiV 281: The Salk legacy with Peter L. Salk
Host: Guest: Peter L. Salk Vincent meets up with Peter L. Salk to talk about development of the first poliovaccine, eradication of poliomyelitis, and Jonas Salk's 100th birth anniversary. Links for this episode by Paul...
TWiV 280: Post viral
Hosts: , , , , and The TWiVmeisters answer listener email about the NEIDL, negative results, patenting MERS-coronavirus, human papillomavirus transmission, canine distemper virus, and much, much more. Links for this...
TWiV 279: The missing LNC
Hosts: , , and Vincent, Alan, and Kathy reveal how a retrovirus in the human genome keeps embryonic stem cells in a pluripotent state, from where they can differentiate into all cells of the body. Links for this...