This Week in Virology (TWiV) #136: Exit XMRV

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Stephen Goff

Retrovirologist Stephen Goff joins Vincent, Rich, and Alan for a discussion of recent papers on the retrovirus XMRV and its association with chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer.

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Links for this episode:

• Recombinant origin of XMRV (Science Express)
• No evidence of gammaretroviruses in XMRV-positive CFS patients (Science Express)
• Editorial expression of concern (Science)
• Absence of XMRV in CFS patients (J Virology)
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Weekly Science Picks

Alan - The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Rich - Trends in annual rates of death (pdf)
Stephen - Unexpected inheritance (PLoS Pathogens)
Vincent - Beyond the human eye

Listener Pick of the Week

Raihan  - Bruce Aylward: How we'll stop polio for good (YouTube)

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