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TWiV 545: Biocrimes and misdemeanors

  • April 28, 2019
  • Tagged as: Australia List Pathogens, biocrime, biodefense, Biopreparat, biosafety, biosecurity, biosurety, bioterrorism, biowarfare, bioweapon, Priority Pathogens, Risk Group Agents, Select Agents, vector, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Jens Kuhn returns to TWiV to explain Select Agents, Priority Pathogens, Australia List Pathogens, Risk Group Agents, biosafety, biosecurity, and biosurety.

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TWiV 508: Bioweapon

  • August 26, 2018
  • Tagged as: biocrime, biodefense, Biopreparat, bioterrorism, biowarfare, bioweapon, Soviet Union, vector, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Jens returns to present a brief history of bioweapons, with a focus on the program in the Soviet Union, the largest ever undertaken, and his experience working in the decommissioned Soviet bioweapons laboratory known as Vector.

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TWiV 200: Threading the NEIDL

  • September 23, 2012
  • Tagged as: arenavirus, biocontainment, biodefense, bioterrorism, bsl2, bsl3, bsl4, containment facility, filovirus, NEIDL, niaid, select agent, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Alan, and Rich celebrate the 200th episode of TWiV by visiting the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University Medical Center, where they meet with Elke, Paul, and Ron to talk about building and working in a BSL4 facility.

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TWiV 192: Viral tertulia

  • July 22, 2012
  • Tagged as: bioinformatics, bioterrorism, commensalism, data, H5N1, influenza, laboratory classes, reproducibility, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener email about bioinformatics, insects, influenza, laboratory classes, commensalism, reproducibility of data, and more.

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TWiV 183: Bats out of hell

  • May 13, 2012
  • Tagged as: bat, bioterrorism, H5N1, hendra, influenza, measles, mumps, Nipah, paramyxovirus, respiratory syncytial, viral, virology, virus

Connor joins the TWiV team to discuss bats as hosts for major mammalian paramyxoviruses.

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TWiV 182: One flu over the ferrets’ nest

  • May 6, 2012
  • Tagged as: avian influenza, bioterrorism, bioweapon, ferret, fouchier, H5N1, kawaoka, michael imperiale, NSABB, viral, virology, virus

Michael joins the TWiV crew to discuss the recently published influenza H5N1 transmission paper and how it was viewed by the NSABB.

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TWiV 164: Six steps forward, four steps back

  • January 1, 2012
  • Tagged as: AIDS, anti-vaccine, bioterrorism, CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, dengue, H5N1, hepatitis C virus, hiv, hpv, human papillomavirus, influenza, NSABB, panic virus, polio eradication, prostate cancer, retrovirus, symbiosis, vaccination, viral, viral oncotherapy, virology, virus, wolbachia, XMRV, zinc finger

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review ten compelling virology stories of 2011.

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TWiV 124: Viruses that make you better

  • March 13, 2011
  • Tagged as: bioterrorism, cancer therapy, myxoma virus, oncolysis, oncolytic, poxvirus, Smallpox, tanapox virus, tumor, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, Rich, and Grant discuss a tanapoxvirus protein that inhibits tumor necrosis factor, purging tumors with myxoma virus, and destruction of the last known stocks of smallpox virus.

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TWiV 112: Creating a killer poxvirus

  • December 19, 2010
  • Tagged as: biodefense, bioterrorism, complement, ectromelia, H1N1, il-4, influenza, interleukin, mortality, pandemic, poxvirus, th1, th2, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review the making of a virulent poxvirus by insertion of the gene encoding IL-4, and severe 2009 H1N1 influenza due to pathogenic immune complexes.

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