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TWiV 400: Harold ‘400’ Varmus, a scientist for all seasons

  • July 31, 2016
  • Tagged as: cancer, Harold Varmus, Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize, oncogene, ras, rous sarcoma virus, sarcoma, src, tyrosine kinase, viral, virology, virus, viruses
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The TWiV team is together in New York City for a conversation with Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus about his remarkable career in science.

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TWiV 214: This is your brain on polyomavirus

  • January 6, 2013
  • Tagged as: adenovirus, chemokine, coagulation factor, cytokine, factor X, gene therapy, innate immunity, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, polyomavirus, sarcoma, TLR4, tumor, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Alan, and Kathy discuss how coagulation factor X binding to adenovirus activates the innate immune system, and a novel polyomavirus associated with brain tumors in raccoons.

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TWiV 163: What Rous wrought

  • December 25, 2011
  • Tagged as: cancer, peyton rous, reverse transcriptase, rous sarcoma virus, sarcoma, src, tumor virus, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review the 100 year old finding by Peyton Rous of a transmissible sarcoma of chickens, a discovery that ushered in the era of tumor virology.

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TWiV 160: Moore tumor viruses

  • December 4, 2011
  • Tagged as: cancer, kaposi, kshv, merkel, polyomavirus, sarcoma, tumor virus, viral, virology, virus

The TWiV team speaks with Patrick Moore about his discovery, with Yuan Chang, of two human tumor viruses, Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus and Merkel cell polyomavirus.

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