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.
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.
The complete TWiVome deconstructs the movie Contagion.
Vincent, Rich, and Alan discuss live blogging of scientific meetings, the current outbreak of Hendra virus is Australia, and using zinc finger nucleases to make HIV-resistant CD4 cells.
Vincent, Alan, and Hamish Young discuss bacteriophages in viral vaccines, enteroviruses and diabetes, inhibition of Hendra and Nipah virus replication by the malaria drug chloroquine, and viroids.
Vincent and Dickson discuss recent outbreaks of polio, west Nile and eastern equine encephalitis, Hendra, and norovirus.