Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 12:55PM This Week in Virology (TWiV) #118: The virus always rings twice
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
On episode #118 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener questions about vaccinia virus, fungal viruses, synthetic viruses, influenza vaccine, HeLa cells, multiplicity of infection, and much more.
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Links for this episode:
- Distribution of glycoproteins on virion surface (paper 1, paper 2) - thanks, Conor!
- Susceptibility of cancer cell lines to tanapox (thanks, Cheryl!)
- Poxvirus family tree
- Sugar, the bitter truth (YouTube) - thanks, Mary!
- BBC podcast: Artificial life (thanks, Sam!)
- Arthritis and influenza at CDC
- Multiplicity of infection at virology blog
- Virus-like particle vaccines (thanks, Sheldon!)
- TWiV on Facebook
- Letters read on TWiV 118
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Alan - What you need to know about infectious disease
Rich - Bad Project (YouTube)
Vincent - Federal research center will help develop medicines
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