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TWiV 478: A pox on your horse

  • January 28, 2018
  • Tagged as: dual use research, edward jenner, infectious DNA clone, Smallpox, smallpox vaccine, transfection, vaccinia virus, variola, viral, virology, virus, viruses

The TWiV team explains how infectious horsepox virus – likely the ancestor of smallpox vaccines – was recovered from chemically synthesized DNA fragments.

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TWiV 170: From variolous effluvia to VLPs

  • February 12, 2012
  • Tagged as: cowpox, edward jenner, H5N1, hexavalent pediatric, influenza, norovirus, Smallpox, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus, virus-like particle, vlp

Alan, Rich, and Dickson discuss Edward Jenner’s paper on cowpox vaccine, then move 200 years later to modern vaccines against norovirus, influenza H5N1, and more.

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