This Week in Virology #83: An hour with Dr. Kiki

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kirsten Sanford

On episode #83 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, Rich, and special guest Dr. Kirsten Sanford talk about her career in science media, then consider whether smallpox eradication led to the AIDS pandemic, high fidelity RNA synthesis, and a new Ebola virus vaccine.

Download TWiV #83 (66 MB .mp3, 91 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• Does smallpox vaccine protect against HIV? (thanks, Srinivas; Washington Post and BMC Immunology)


• Was the deltaCRR5 mutation fixed in the human population by smallpox?


• A proofreader in the SARS coronavirus genome


• New ebola vaccine protects monkeys


• House of Numbers trailer, website, Wikipedia article (thanks, Levi!)


• Letters read on TWiV 83

Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Evernote
Rich - The Knife Man by Wendy Moore
Vincent - The Pump Handle

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