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 18 hours 51 minutes
TWiV 272: Give peas a chance
Hosts: , , , , and The TWiV team describes aphid control by using a viral capsid protein to deliver a spider toxin to plants, and a human endogenous retrovirus that enhances expression of a neuronal gene. Links for this...
TWiV 271: To bee, or not to bee, that is the infection
Hosts: , , , , and The TWiV crew discusses two reports on viruses that might have crossed kingdoms, from plants to honeybees and from plants to vertebrates. Links for this episode in honeybees (mBio) Plant virus...
TWiV 270: Homeland virology
Hosts: and Guests: and Vincent and Rich discuss avian influenza virus and an antiviral drug against smallpox with Dennis and Yoshi at the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting in Washington, DC. Links...
TWiV 269: Herpesvirus stops a nuclear attack
Hosts: , , , , and The complete TWiV team reviews evidence for sensing of herpesviral DNA in the nucleus by the cell protein IFI16. Links for this episode IFI16 is a pathogen sensor (Cell Host Micr) Nuclear...
TWiV 268: Transmission is inevitable
Hosts: , , , and Vincent, Alan, Kathy, and Ashlee discuss fomites in physicians offices, plant virus factories involved in aphid transmission, and clues from the bat genome about flight and immunity. Links for this...
TWiV 267: Snow in the headlights
Hosts: , , , and Vincent, Alan, Rich and Kathy review a protease essential for influenza pathogenesis in mice, and directionality of rhinovirus RNA exit from the capsid. Links for this episode essential for influenza...
TWiV 266: A pathogenic vicious cycle
Hosts: , , and Vincent, Alan, and Kathy discuss finding viruses in outer space, varying results obtained from personal genetic testing, and depletion of CD4 cells during HIV infection by pyroptosis. Links for this episode We...
TWiV 265: This year in virology
Hosts: , , , and In their final episode of the year, the TWiV team reviews ten compelling virology stories from 2013. Links for this episode Antiviral RNAi (TWiV , , ) MERS-CoV...
TWiV 264: We should do an all-email show some day
Hosts: , , , and The TWiVites read listener questions and comments about public engagement in science, vaccines, RNAi, reprogramming CD8 cells to treat cancer, rabies, and much more. Links for this episode Controlling plant...
TWiV 263: Game of clones
Hosts: , Dickson Despommier, , , , and Ben joins the TWiV team to reveal the winner of his contest in which influenza viruses carrying different interferon-stimulated genes vie against one another in mice. Links for this...