This Week in Virology (TWiV) #113: Alan Rein on XMRV

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Alan Rein

On episode #113 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss the retrovirus XMRV with retrovirologist Alan Rein of the National Cancer Institute.

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Links for this episode:

• XMRV: A new virus is prostate cancer? (Cancer Research)
• Detection of XMRV in normal and prostate tumor tissue (J Inf Dis)
• Reach for a scorecard (commentary, J Inf Dis)
• Retrovirology papers: one, two, three, four, commentary
• Integration sites of XMRV in prostate tumor DNA (J Virol, PLoS One)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 113

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