This Week in Virology #81: Be a virus, see the world

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Vincent and Rich answer listener questions on viruses and gluten allergy, RNA silencing, influenza virus, herpes simplex virus, HIV/AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome, manicure salons, and the koala tea of Marseilles.

Download TWiV #81 (68 MB .mp3, 94 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• Virus infections and gluten intolerance on TWiS (thanks Jesper!)


• Viral small RNAs in PLoS Pathogens (thanks Jason!)


• Canadian Summit Awards (thanks Jim!)


• Experimenting with phage at home (thanks Richard!)


• CRISPR discovered by a dairy company (thanks Joel!)


• Expedition to New Guinea to sample bird viruses - movie and blog entry (thanks Henrik!)


• Preventing herpes with arginine and lysine - pdf (thanks Anthony!)


• Chronic fatigue donors face rejection (thanks James!)


• The Koala tea of Marseilles is not strained (thanks Stephen!)


• The other Larson virus cartoon (jpg)


• Letters read on TWiV 81

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