This Week in Virology #85: Hepatitis C virus with Professor Michael Gale

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Gale

On episode 85 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Michael Gale discuss the origin, pathogenesis, prevention, of hepatitis C virus, and how it evades innate immune responses.

Download TWiV #85 (40 MB .mp3, 56 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• The Gale Laboratory at the University of Washington


• Incredible view from the Gale laboratory (jpg)


• Evasion and disruption of innate immune signalling by hepatitis C and West Nile viruses (review)


• New potent HCV inhibitor


• HCV virion and genome structures at ViralZone

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