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TWiV 561: Hot or not

  • August 18, 2019
  • Tagged as: bat, ebolavirus, inflammation, monoclonal antibody, mutualism, NLRP3, panic grass, reservoir host, symbiosis, thermotolerance, viral, viroloy, virus, viruses

The Autonomous CollecTWiVe reveal two effective treatments for Ebolavirus infection, how a virus in a fungus confers heat tolerance to a plant, and dampened inflammation as a mechanism for bat tolerance to viral infection.

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TWiV 470: Just a passing phage

  • December 3, 2017
  • Tagged as: bacteriophage, cell monolayer, endocytosis, horizontal gene transfer, phage-eukaryotic interaction, symbiosis, transcytosis, viral, virology, virus, viruses

The TWiV ninjas reveal that bacteriophage particles rapidly move across monolayers of eukaryotic cells from different tissues.

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TWiV 179: Was ist ein Virus?

  • April 15, 2012
  • Tagged as: blood feeding, braconid, dengue, mosquito, mutualism, nudivirus, parasitoid wasp, polydnavirus, salivary gland, symbiosis, viral, virology, virus

Gertrud joins the TWiVoners to review how dengue virus infection of mosquitoes alters blood feeding behavior, and gene therapy as practiced by parasitoid wasps.

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TWiV 164: Six steps forward, four steps back

  • January 1, 2012
  • Tagged as: AIDS, anti-vaccine, bioterrorism, CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, dengue, H5N1, hepatitis C virus, hiv, hpv, human papillomavirus, influenza, NSABB, panic virus, polio eradication, prostate cancer, retrovirus, symbiosis, vaccination, viral, viral oncotherapy, virology, virus, wolbachia, XMRV, zinc finger

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review ten compelling virology stories of 2011.

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TWiV 92: Live at ASV in Bozeman

  • July 25, 2010
  • Tagged as: AIDS, antiviral, asv, bozeman, hiv, mutualism, plant virus, Polio, poliovirus, symbiosis, tmv, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Rich, Karla, and Marilyn recorded TWiV at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology in Bozeman, where they discussed plant viruses and how they make plants resistant to adverse conditions, and identification of dominant negative drug targets.

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