Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Alan Rein
Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss the retrovirus XMRV with retrovirologist Alan Rein of the National Cancer Institute.
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Links for this episode:
- XMRV: A new virus is prostate cancer? (Cancer Research)
- Detection of XMRV in normal and prostate tumor tissue (J Inf Dis)
- Reach for a scorecard (commentary, J Inf Dis)
- Retrovirology papers: one, two, three, four, commentary
- Integration sites of XMRV in prostate tumor DNA (J Virol, PLoS One)
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- Letters read on TWiV 113
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