This Week in Virology

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TWiV #152 - Viromes in the effluence of society Oct 09, 2011

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Vincent, Alan, and Rich cover the virome of raw sewage, and a baculovirus gene that causes caterpillars to climb to their doom.

TWiV #151 - Dear TWiVers Oct 02, 2011

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Vincent, Alan, and Rich review questions and comments from TWiV listeners.

TWiV #150 - Contaminated Sep 24, 2011

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Vincent, Dickson, and Rich meant to do an all-email episode, but first they review results of the Blood XMRV Scientific Research Working Group, and partial retraction of the paper associating XMRV with chronic fatigue syndrome.

TWiV #149 - Live at ICAAC in the Windy City Sep 17, 2011

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Vincent, Rich, Mark, and Trine discuss science and medicine in journalism and the eradication of poliovirus at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC).

TWiV #148 - Retreating into Harvard virology Sep 11, 2011

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Vincent, Philip, David, and Priscilla recorded this episode before an audience at the Harvard Virology Program Annual Retreat, where they discussed negative strand RNA viruses, a vaccine against herpes simplex virus type 2, lipidomics of viral infection, and science communication.

TWiV #147 - Debugging dengue Sep 04, 2011

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The complete TWiV gang discusses the use of Wolbachia to control mosquito-borne infections.

TWiV #146 - Draco's potion Aug 28, 2011

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Vincent, Rich, and Abbie review a broad spectrum antiviral protein, and selective pressure applied by a failed HIV-1 vaccine.

TWiV #145 - The inVinceable TWiV Aug 16, 2011

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Alan and Rich tackle the discovery of bacteriophages, and treating influenza by calming the cytokine storm.

TWiV #144 - HIV gets the (zinc) finger Jul 31, 2011

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Vincent, Rich, and Alan discuss live blogging of scientific meetings, the current outbreak of Hendra virus is Australia, and using zinc finger nucleases to make HIV-resistant CD4 cells.

TWiV #143 - Live at ASV in Minneapolis Jul 24, 2011

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Vincent, Rich, Julie and Stacey recorded TWiV at the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology in Minneapolis, where they discussed the role of neutralizing antibodies in protection against HIV-1 infection, and astroviruses, agents of gastroenteritis.

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