Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson review evidence that a virus of the protozoan parasite Trichomonas vaginalis may exacerbate disease.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson meet with Judith Straimer and Marcus Lee to discuss their method for site-specific genome editing in Plasmodium falciparum using zinc finger nucleases.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson discuss Toxoplasma biology with Stanford University Professor John Boothroyd
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson explain how a nematode manipulates cricket behavior and alters the food web of a stream.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson review how sickle cell microRNAs contribute to malaria resistance, and inhibition of innate immune responses by an enzyme from trypanosomes.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson answer listener emails about Leishmania, dual infection of vectors, tapeworms, liver flukes, toxoplasmosis, and much more.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson review medically important arthropods.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson discuss loaiasis caused by the filarial nematode Loa loa.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson review the biology and pathogenesis of the amoebae Naegleria fowlerii and Acanthamoeba castellani.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson tackle the backlog of listener email, then consider the life cycle and pathogenesis of Trichomonas vaginalis, the flagellated protozoan transmitted by sexual contact.
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