TWiV 274: Data dump
Mar 02, 2014•2 hr
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Episode description
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiV team discusses recent cases of polio-like paralysis in California, and the virome of 14th century paleofeces.
Links for this episode- MERS-CoV in dromedary camels (EID)
- Virologist Al Kapikian dies
- Polio-like illness in CA (ProMedMail)
- Acute flaccid paralysis
- AFP in India (EID)
- Enterovirus 68 (MMWR)
- EV 68 CNS infection (Arch Path Lab Med)
- Polio-free does not mean paralysis-free (The Hindu)
- Viruses in 14th century coprolite (AEM)
- Coprolite and paleofeces
- Ancient poxvirus (EID)
- Giant coprolite (WordADay)
- Letters read on TWiV 274
Alan - The science of science communicationRich - Command and Control by Eric SchlosserDickson - Top 10 plant virusesVincent - Is the Nobel Prize good for science?Kathy - Time to rethink graduate and postdoc education (YouTube)
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