Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson discuss the biology and pathogenesis of poliovirus infection and the plan to eradicate the virus from the planet.
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Links for this episode:
- polioeradication.org for the latest information on the global state of polio.
- Abstract of the Science article on engineering a new polio vaccine: “Virus attenuation by genome-scale changes in codon pair bias”.
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