TWiV 219: Fauci pharmacy

Anthony Fauci, MDHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Anthony S. Fauci

Vincent and Rich meet up with Anthony S. Fauci, MD, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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TWiV 217: I just flu in and my arms are shot

vaccine vialHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier

Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Dickson review influenza vaccines.

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Weekly Science Picks

Rich – Repoopulate (original article), Robogut (new clinical trial)
Alan – WTF, Evolution?
Dickson – The Beauty and Benefits of Science
Vincent – Supercomputing modeling of poliovirus

Listener Pick of the Week

Bjorn, Marshall, Meaghan – Glass sculptures of Luke Jerram

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TWiV 216: Processing VIRALGUUAACACCAGRNA

splicingHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy resume the virology 101 series with a discussion of RNA capping, splicing, and export.

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Rich – Linus Pauling’s explanation of science (YouTube)
Alan – Underwater experiments
Kathy – I’m a virus (YouTube)
Vincent – Stem cells (Bizarro Comics)

Listener Pick of the Week

Tom – The President’s Analyst
Danielle – Overly honest methods (HuffPost and ASBMB Today)

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TWiV 215: Illuminating rabies and unwrapping a SARI

Virus in the gardenHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, and Kathy review the finding that rabies virus infection alters but does not kill neurons, and provide an update on the novel coronavirus in the Middle East.

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Weekly Science Picks

Alan – I’m a Scientist – The Film
Kathy – Humorous units of measurement (Wikipedia)
Vincent – Open access must enable open use (Nature)

Listener Pick of the Week

Tarwin – Plague Inc.

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TWiV 214: This is your brain on polyomavirus

raccoon tumorHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, and Kathy discuss how coagulation factor X binding to adenovirus activates the innate immune system, and a novel polyomavirus associated with brain tumors in raccoons.

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Alan – Parasite of the Day
Kathy – Tour of International Space Station
Vincent – Earth as Art

Listener Pick of the Week

Robin – Angell on Big Pharma
Michael – Flu jokes
Jim – Database of Ted talks; Downloadable Ted Talks

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TWiV 213: Not bad for a hobby

TWiV Team in BSL4 suitsHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

In their final episode of the year, the TWiV team reviews twelve cool virology stories from 2012.

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Twelve virology stories from 2012:

  1. H5N1 (TWiV 190, 182, 177, 173, 168)
  2. Polymorphisms that control susceptibility (TWiV 175, 180)
  3. New virus receptors (TWiV 166, 210)
  4. XMRV: Last nail in the coffin (TWiV special)
  5. Polio eradication troubles in Pakistan (NY Times one, two, three; virology blog)
  6. Biomedical research crisis (TWiV 208, 184, 189, 194)
  7. Polydnaviruses in parasitoid wasps (TWiV 179)
  8. Carolyn Coyne’s placental barrier story (TWiV 193)
  9. Touring NEIDL (TWiV 200)
  10. Epidemiology (TWiV 169, 178)
  11. A good year for virus hunting (173, 183, 195, 196, 198, 199, 204)
  12. Pox accordion (TWiV 198)

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Weekly Science Picks

Rich – Our Mr. Sun (IMDB entry) (wiki)
Alan – PubReader from NCBI announcement and instructions
Kathy – Popular Mechanics 110 picks for the next 110 years
Vincent – 366 days: Nature’s 10

Listener Pick of the Week

Matt – The flu vaccine controversy

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TWiV Special: Ignorance with Stuart Firestein

Stuart FiresteinHosts: Vincent Racaniello and Stuart Firestein

Vincent and Stuart discuss why ignorance – all of what we don’t know, and even what we don’t know we don’t know – is the driving force of science.

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TWiV 212: Apocalypse TWiV 122112 212

fungal snowmanHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVerers answer listener email about genetically modified chickens, a hendra vaccine for horses, online education, curing color blindness, Roosevelt and polio, Th cells, and much more.

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Weekly Science Picks

Rich – Overview
Alan – Notes towards the complete works of Shakespeare
Kathy – Correlation vs. Causation (#1, #2, #3)
Vincent – Periodically inspired

Listener Pick of the Week

Mark – Life of a Nature paper
Ricardo – Things don’t go viral

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TWiV 211: Viruses r us

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Santa HBVAlan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV four discuss an mRNA-based influenza vaccine, and a phage tubulin that forms a filamentous array in the host cell that is needed for positioning viral DNA.

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Weekly Science Picks

Rich – Ocean Global Shark Tracker
Alan – The Field Book Project
Kathy – How to manipulate an army of zombies
Vincent – Science sculpture

Listener Pick of the Week

Stephen – WEHI.TV

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The Hosts of TWiV

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Dickson D.
Despommier, Ph.D.


Alan Dove, Ph.D.


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


Jolene Ramsey, Ph.D.


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