This Week in Virology

TWiV 356: Got viruses?

Sep 27, 2015 · 1 hr 56 min · 84.1 MB
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Stephanie Neal

Stephanie joins the super professors to discuss the gut virome of children with serious malnutrition, caterpillar genes acquired from parasitic wasps, and the effect of adding chemokines to a simian immunodeficiency virus DNA vaccine.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks 1:18:35, 1:45:30

Alan - Plates from Hooke's MicrographiaRich - The Wright Brothers by David McCulloughKathy - Spore evaporation-driven engines (video and article)Dickson - Color variations of Pluto and Lunar total eclipseStephanie - The science of moldy cheese by Carl ZimmerVincent - But Why?

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