TWiV 349: One ring to vaccinate them all
Aug 09, 2015•1 hr 51 min
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Episode description
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Vincent, Alan and Rich explain how to make a functional ribosome with tethered subunits, and review the results of a phase III VSV-vectored Ebolavirus vaccine trial in Guinea.
Links for this episode
- Social media specialist position at ASM
- WHO dismisses Catholic church on vaccine safety
- U of T Dean resigns over anti-vaccine course (Tor Star)
- Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
- Countering anti-vaccination attitudes (PNAS)
- Designer ribosome (Nature)
- rVSV-EBOV preliminary report (NEJM)
- rVSV-EBOV phase III interim report (pdf, Lancet)
- World on verge of Ebolavirus vaccine (WHO)
- Ebolavirus vaccine in Africa (virology blog)
- Letters read on TWiV 349 11:55
This episode is sponsored by ASM GAP
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