TWiV 295: A nonslip grippe and Lassa's LAMP
Jul 27, 2014•1 hr 48 min
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Episode description
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
The TWiVome discusses an miRNA based strategy to mitigate risk of gain of function studies, and identification of a second receptor required for Lassa virus entry.
Links for this episode
- miRNA strategy to minimize risk (Nat BioT)
- NIH Office of Science Policy
- NIH recombinant DNA guidelines
- Second receptor for Lassa virus entry (Science)
- Lassa fever (Wikipedia)
- Fever! The discovery of Lassa virus (TWiV 9)
- Letters read on TWiV 294
Alan - Nicky Bay macrophotography (Flickr)Rich - FASEB Third annual BioArt competitionVincent - Up Close podcast (vrr episode)Dickson - Science fun (YouTube)
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