TWiV 1161: Baby you can drive my gene

October 26, 2024

TWiV reviews continuing expansion of poliovirus type 2, removal of influenza B/Yamagata from the vaccine, Nobel Prize for miRNAs, protective immune response with a adenovirus-associated virus vector expressing a computationally designed hemagglutinin, and viral gene drive during herpes simplex 1 infection in mice.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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Continued expansion of type 2 poliovirus (reliefweb) 4:41

No more polio case map at polioeradication.org 9:35

B/Yamagata removed from flu vaccine (NPR) 10:50

Nobel Prizes for miRNA (ScienceInsider) 15:25

AAV-vectored influenza vaccine (J Virol) 21:45

Herpesvirus type 1 gene drive in mice (Nat Commun) 1:01:54

Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Alan – Opening a deep-sea vent with a crowbar
VincentThe expanding world of neuroscience

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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  1. Jim in Smithfield, VA Nov 23, 2011

    I like Alan’s Coleman lantern which leads to thoughts about  Joule Thieves or Thief, a thread on the net about pulsed power from “defunct” batteries to run led’s and even Compact Fluorescent Lights. One YouTube video shows use of a high voltage coil from a car, in a circuit that can be tuned, and several CFL’s being run from a used 1.5v battery, at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zacait0vgCM , and here’s a small packaged version, at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrHA8jefiYc&feature=related .  I think the joule thief concept has gone viral.  Some proponents are suggesting this is perpetual energy and even couple solar cells to joule-thief-lit led’s to charge the battery that’s powering the led…..!  So, anyway, this concept apparently produces very long-running lights even for led devices that are useful in power-deprived areas, like New England – hah.  We recently used our garden solar power led’s to save generator fuel in the evening during a power outage of several days!  If you could run duplicate lighting circuits for led’s in your house, you could probably light the whole place for a week or two off a car’s 12v battery.  And that leads me to suggest  The Third Industrial Revolution book  by Jeremy Rifkin as a science pick, or you can listen to an interview where he talks about lateral power production at http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail5059.html .

    Jim
    Smithfield, VA

  2. Jim in Smithfield, VA Nov 23, 2011

    Vaccines in older people: I’m 70 and the flu vaccine this year and last did not cause a local reaction as it always has in years past.  Until this podcast I attributed the reduced reaction to a declining immune system, but it may instead be due to the lower concentration of virus as you guys stated.  I think my wife may have seen a reduced reaction, also; I can’t give her age, but she’s 3 years younger!