TWiM 108: Vaccine in the time of cholera

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson.

The professors of TWiM discuss a University of Wisconsin plan for rescuing biomedical research in the US, and results of a clinical trial in Bangladesh of an oral cholera vaccine.

 

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Links for this episode

• Rescuing biomedical research (eLife)
• Rethinking graduate and postdoc education (iBiology)
• Oral cholera vaccine trial (Lancet)
• Inexpensive cholera vaccine (NYTimes)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiM 108

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