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TWiV 339: Herpes and the sashimi plot

  • May 31, 2015
  • Tagged as: cancer, Chikungunya virus, exon, herpesvirus, host shutoff, intron, IRF7, Lassa fever, mosquitoes, splicing, transcription termination, translation, viral, virology, virus, west nile virus

Tre TWiV amici present three snippets and a side of sashimi: how herpesvirus inhibits host cell gene expression by disrupting transcription termination.

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TWiV 201: Rabid about viruses

  • September 30, 2012
  • Tagged as: adenovirus, Alan, mosquitoes, obesity, pandemic, Ph.D. programs, poliovirus, retraction, Rich, science publishing, Vaccine, Vincent, xenotransplantation

Vincent, Alan, Rich, Dickson, and Kathy answer reader email about rabies, xenotransplantation, poliovirus, Ph.D. programs, mosquitoes, and much more.

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TWiV 11: Elite controllers, mosquitoes, and winter vomiting

  • December 13, 2008
  • Tagged as: AIDS, hiv, mosquitoes, norovirus, TWiV, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Vincent, Alan, and Jeremy discuss why certain AIDS patients, called ‘elite controllers’ or ‘long-term non-progressors’, do not develop disease, why mosquitoes infected with Sindbis virus remain healthy, and the continuing outbreaks of norovirus gastroenteritis.

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