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Mohammad writes: re: Camels win Santa’s heart Dear Dr. Racaniello and TWiV team, This is Mohammad, your biggest fan from Saudi Arabia, Riyadh in particular. I’ve been listening to TWIV since 2011. It all started…

Fiona writes: Firstly, we would like to thank you for the segment on the current debate as to the mechanism of how viruses can become attenuated through wholescale genome modification. We really appreciated the comments…

Francois writes: Hi Twiv team, This one is for Alan. In TWiV 335, he linked the european defiance for GMO rice to a supposed protectionism of french rice farmers. Yes, we’ve got our fair share…

Juan writes: Dear Alan, Dickson, Kathy, Rich and Vincent (alphabetical order), Thanks once again for an entertaining episode of TWiV, and also for choosing plant viruses as one of the main topics of the show….

Laura writes: Hi Twiv team, I was alarmed to see that Mark Lipsitch published his views on “potentially pandemic pathogens” in Scientific American. It is too bad that the readers are getting only one side…

Lance writes: I’m still a week behind on TWiV at the moment, but I heard Dixon suggest that someone from the UK who was interested in helping should contact the London School of Hygiene &…

Robin writes: Yet another multiple sclerosis treatment: A letter writer’s sister has multiple sclerosis. Polyclonal vegetables should not be harmful, and might even be beneficial: <a href=”http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc“>Minding Your Mitochondria: Dr. Terry Wahls at TEDxIowaCity</a> Mortality…

Paul Duprex writes: As you may have heard, the Boston City Council is going to entertain an ordinance to ban BSL-4 research in the City of Boston. I can’t tell you how devastating such a…

Robert writes: Hello TWIV docs, I enjoyed the discussion of the zinc finger treatment paper. During the discussion the question was raised concerning the origin of the CCR5 delta 32 mutation. About 4 – 18%…