This Week in Virology #88: A bug fix, an AIDS treatment, and an undead retrovirus

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Marc Pelletier

On episode #88 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Marc discuss using a virus for beetle control, RNA based gene therapy for AIDS, and reconstitution of a endogenous human retrovirus.

Download TWiV #88 (68 MB .mp3, 91 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• Controlling the palm rhinoceros beetle with a virus


• The virologist in the Hawaiian shirt


• Information on Orcytes rhinocerus nudivirus (one, two, three)


• RNA based gene therapy for AIDS


• Reconstitution of an infectious human retrovirus (PLoS Pathogens)


• Letters read on TWiV 88

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