TWiV #71 - Please Mr. Postman
Feb 28, 2010•1 hr 28 min
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Episode description
On episode #71 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Dickson, Alan and Rich answer listener questions about maternal infection and fetal injury, viral gene therapy, eyeglasses and influenza, filtering prions from blood, eradication of rinderpest, Tamiflu resistance of H1N1 influenza, bacteriophages and the human microbiome, H1N1 vaccine recalls, human tumor viruses, RNA interference, and junk DNA.
Host links Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Links for this episode:- Maternal infection and fetal neurological injury
- Filtering prions from blood (prion capture technology)
- Eradication of rinderpest (Merck veterinary manual)
- Podcasts from Life in the Universe course
- Immune Attack video game
- H1N1 review article and Holmes on genetic hijacking
- Podcast on Merck vaccines
- Ft. Lee NJ snowed in (jpg)
Dickson and Alan NSF/AAAS Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Rich Foundation by Issac Asimov Vincent Natural Obsessions by Natalie Angier
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