Tag: transcription

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

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.

Tag: transcription

TWiV 440: I hardly noumeavirus

TWiV 293: Virology Down Under

TWiV 279: The missing LNC

TWiV 162: Transcription

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