TWiV 280: Post viral

Periodic Table Quilt - FrontHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVmeisters answer listener email about the NEIDL, negative results, patenting MERS-coronavirus, human papillomavirus transmission, canine distemper virus, and much, much more.

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Weekly Science Picks

Alan – Heartbleed explanation
Vincent – Agriculture science today podcast
Kathy – Quizlet flashcards (online and iTunes)
Rich – Why nothing is truly alive

Listener Pick of the Week

Lance – Myles Power (YouTube and Facebook)
Raihan – Cheap DIY microscope
Gerald – DaVinci Press
Neal – I’m a virus

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TWiV 279: The missing LNC

embryonic stem cellsHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, and Kathy reveal how a retrovirus in the human genome keeps embryonic stem cells in a pluripotent state, from where they can differentiate into all cells of the body.

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Alan – Heathkit
Vincent – How to think about autism risk and Autism prevalence
Kathy – Distortions

Listener Pick of the Week

Joseph – The real process of science
Marion – Zometool
Kevin – Audioimmunity and Emmunity

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TWiV 278: Flushing HIV down the zinc

HIV cross stitchHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy discuss disruption of the ccr5 gene in lymphocytes of patients infected with HIV-1.

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Alan – Digital scale model of solar system
Dickson – Font of knowledge
Vincent – Measles outbreaks trends, and NYC measles (one, two)
Kathy – Winner, funding basic science to revolutionize medicine

Listener Pick of the Week

Stephen & Jon – Watty’s Wall Stuff
Johyne – Macro views of snowflakes
Ricardo & Stephen – Vaccine exemptions
Bill – Books by John Janovy
Marshall – Animation of DNA replication
Steve – Debunking influenza vaccine myths

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TWiV 276: Ramblers go viral

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Susan Baker and Thomas Gallagher

Vincent meets up with Susan Baker and Tom Gallagher at Loyola University to talk about their work on coronaviruses.



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Vincent – First demonstration of Macintosh, 1984

Listener Pick of the Week

Lance – The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

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TWiV 276

TWiV 275: Virocentricity with Eugene Koonin

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Guest: Eugene Koonin

Vincent and Rich meet up with Eugene Koonin to talk about the central role of viruses in the evolution of all life.



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TWiV 274: Data dump

Adina rubellaHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV team discusses recent cases of polio-like paralysis in California, and the virome of 14th century paleofeces.

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Weekly Science Picks

Alan – The science of science communication
Rich – Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
Dickson – Top 10 plant viruses
Vincent – Is the Nobel Prize good for science?
Kathy – Time to rethink graduate and postdoc education (YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

Jon – Lessons from a Kansas graveyard
Mike –  Cross a fashion designer with a microbiologist

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TWiV special: MERS-coronavirus in dromedary camels

Dromedary camelsHost: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: W. Ian Lipkin and Thomas Briese

Vincent meets up with Ian and Thomas to discuss their finding that MERS-coronavirus has been circulating in dromedary camels in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since at least 1992.

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TWiV 273: Lambda is not just a phage

IFN lambdaHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVome dissect the finding that interferon lambda alleles predict the outcome of hepatitis C virus infection.

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Weekly Science Picks

Rich – Think like a scientist (one, two); Science controversies
Dickson – Visualization challenge 2013
Vincent – Orphan Black
Kathy – Alberta worm invasion project

Listener Pick of the Week

Timothy – How do vaccines cause autism?
Anne – Luke Jerram’s glass viruses
Jim – NLM Communications Engineering Branch
Steve – Synapse by synapse
Jacob – Tiny technology creates a buzz

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TWiV 272: Give peas a chance

aphid feederHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV team describes aphid control by using a viral capsid protein to deliver a spider toxin to plants, and a human endogenous retrovirus that enhances expression of a neuronal gene.

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Alan – Statistical error (Nature)
Rich – 12 oldest animal species
Dickson – When liquids collide
Vincent – HIV denial and just asking questions
Kathy – Sun’s canyon of fire

Listener Pick of the Week

Sandra – Women physicists keep female students psyched
Judi – HHMI’s Biointeractive
Jacob – Influenza virus HA

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The Hosts of TWiV

Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D.


Dickson D.
Despommier, Ph.D.


Alan Dove, Ph.D.


Daniel Griffin, M.D.,
Ph.D., CTropMed CTH


Angela Mingarelli, DVM


Jolene Ramsey, Ph.D.


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