This Week in Virology

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TWiV #132 - Virology 911 May 09, 2011

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Vincent, Rich, Alan, and Dickson speak with Alfred Sacchetti, MD, Chief of Emergency Services at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, about viral infections encountered in the emergency room.

TWiV #131 - A REOstat for cancer May 01, 2011

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Vincent, Alan, and Dickson chat with Brad Thompson, CEO of Oncolytics Biotech, about using reovirus to treat cancer.

TWiV #130 - Rhino tracking, wrestling pox, and HCV in the crosshairs Apr 24, 2011

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Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss growth in culture of newly identified rhinovirus C, vaccinia transmission among wrestlers and martial artists, and results of phase III clinical trial of boceprevir, a new inhibitor of hepatitis C virus replication.

TWiV #129 - We've got mail Apr 17, 2011

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Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Rich answer listener questions about XMRV, yellow fever vaccine, virus-like particles, West Nile virus, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and human endogenous retroviruses, multiplicity of infection, and how to make a poxvirus.

TWiV #128 - Virologists in the mist Apr 10, 2011

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Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Welkin review how a virus regulates the severity of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, virophage control of antarctic algal host-virus dynamics, and human metapneumovirus infection in gorillas.

TWiV #127 - Viruses are no joke Apr 03, 2011

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Vincent, Alan, and Rich explore a novel bunyavirus isolated in China, the recent polio outbreak in Republic of the Congo, and cell to cell transmission of a retrovirus by biofilm-like extracellular assemblies.

TWiV #126 - Wart's up, doc? Mar 27, 2011

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Virologist Michelle Ozbun and the TWiV team review the biology of human papillomaviruses.

TWiV #125 - TWiV infects FiB Mar 20, 2011

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This Week in Virology and Futures in Biotech join together in a science mashup to talk about a virophage at the origin of DNA transposons, and unintended spread of a recombinant retrovirus.

TWiV #124 - Viruses that make you better Mar 13, 2011

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Vincent, Dickson, Alan, Rich, and Grant discuss a tanapoxvirus protein that inhibits tumor necrosis factor, purging tumors with myxoma virus, and destruction of the last known stocks of smallpox virus.

TWiV #123 - Contaminated prostates, absolute truth, and bleached worms Mar 06, 2011

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Vincent, Alan, and Rich talk about XMRV integration sites in prostate tumor DNA, the decline effect and scientific method, and the first virus of Caenorhabditis nematodes.

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