The TWiM team considers a report on prokaryotic viral DNA in mammalian brain, and how diarrhea is beneficial, by clearing enteric pathogens.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson
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Links for this episode
- Prokaryotic viral sequence in the brain (PNAS)
- Diarrhea clears enteric pathogens (Cell Host Microbe)
- Tight junction biology (Turner Laboratory)
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiM 158
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