No problem not being nice to Dickson in this episode, because he’s absent for a discussion of a new giant virus that replicates in the cytoplasm yet transiently accesses the nucleus to bootstrap infection.
TWiV 63: Melting pot virus
- December 20, 2009
- Tagged as: amoebae, DNA, lyophilize, marseillevirus, mimivirus, poxvirus, rabies, Smallpox, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus
Vincent, Alan, and Rich talk about US government contract for freeze-dried smallpox vaccine, red squirrels in the UK threatened by poxvirus, and Marseillevirus, another DNA virus from amoebae built for comfort and speed.