The TWiV team reviews the first FDA approved gene therapy, accidental exposure to poliovirus type 2 in a manufacturing plant, and production of a candidate poliovirus vaccine in plants.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
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Links for this episode
- ASM Conference on Viral Manipulation of Nuclear Processes
- ASM Public Outreach Fellowship
- Kymriah approved (PennMed)
- CAR T cells (NCBI)
- Cost of Kymriah (NYTimes)
- Accidental exposure to poliovirus type 2 (Eurosurveill)
- GAPIII (WHO)
- Poliovaccine candidate in plants (Nat Commun)
- Vertical vaccine farm (TWiV 47)
- All picornaviruses, all the time (TWiV 425)
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Rich – Google street view of the International Space Station. (article)
Vincent – the bioinformatics chat
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