Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Nels visits Vincent in the MicrobeTV studio in New York and talks about how key genes of the Homo sapiens innate immune response were acquired from Neanderthals.
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- Introgressed Neanderthal haplotype at OAS locus (biorXiv)
- Genetic time travel (Genetics)
- Genetic history of Ice Age Europe (Nature)
- Letters read on TWiEVO 8
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Another excellent show, thank you both. Quick tip regarding preprint servers, if you haven’t mentioned it on any of the TwiX shows picks yet (I can’t remember it being mentioned), check out prepubmed , on http://www.prepubmed.org/, a search engine for several preprint servers, including bioRxiv. Useful resource!