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TWiV 440: I hardly noumeavirus

  • May 7, 2017
  • Tagged as: bootstrap, evolution, giant virus, marseillevirus, mimivirus, mRNA synthesis, Noumeavirus, nucleus, polyA, transcription, Vaccines, viral, virology, virus, viruses
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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.

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TWiV 293: Virology Down Under

  • July 13, 2014
  • Tagged as: AIDS, Australia, encephalitis, hiv, Koala retrovirus, Melbourne, microbicide, neuropathogenesis, reverse transcriptase, transcription, viral, virology, virus, west nile virus

Vincent visits Melbourne, Australia and speaks with Melissa, Alex, Gilda, and Paul about their work on HIV infection of the central nervous system, West Nile virus, microbicides for HIV, and the Koala retrovirus.

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TWiV 279: The missing LNC

  • April 6, 2014
  • Tagged as: differentiation, embryonic stem cells, endogenous retrovirus, enhancer, erv, ES cells, HERV-H, pluripotency, transcription, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Alan, and Kathy reveal how a retrovirus in the human genome keeps embryonic stem cells in a pluripotent state, from where they can differentiate into all cells of the body.

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TWiV 162: Transcription

  • December 18, 2011
  • Tagged as: cap, dna dependent rna synthesis, nucleic acid, pol I, pol II, pol III, polyA, polymerase, rna splicing, transcription, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Rich, and Alan continue Virology 101 with a discussion of transcription, the process of making mRNA from a DNA template.

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