This Week in Virology

TWiV 740: Complementation will get you everywhere

Apr 8, 2021 · 1 hr 36 min · Episode 740 · 58.5 MB
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The Guardians of the TWiV-o-verse discuss the process of codon deoptimization for the production of experimental infectious attenuated viral vaccines, and how a respiratory syncytial virus with 619 base changes was rescued by genomes with very large internal deletions.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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