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TWiV 131: A REOstat for cancer

• May 1, 2011

Vincent, Alan, and Dickson chat with Brad Thompson, CEO of Oncolytics Biotech, about using reovirus to treat cancer.

TWiV 130: Rhino tracking, wrestling pox, and HCV in the crosshairs

• April 24, 2011

Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss growth in culture of newly identified rhinovirus C, vaccinia transmission among wrestlers and martial artists, and results of phase III clinical trial of boceprevir, a new inhibitor of hepatitis C virus replication.

TWiV 129: We’ve got mail

• April 17, 2011

Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Rich answer listener questions about XMRV, yellow fever vaccine, virus-like particles, West Nile virus, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and human endogenous retroviruses, multiplicity of infection, and how to make a poxvirus.

TWiV 128: Virologists in the mist

• April 10, 2011

Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Welkin review how a virus regulates the severity of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, virophage control of antarctic algal host-virus dynamics, and human metapneumovirus infection in gorillas.

TWiV 127: Viruses are no joke

• April 3, 2011

Vincent, Alan, and Rich explore a novel bunyavirus isolated in China, the recent polio outbreak in Republic of the Congo, and cell to cell transmission of a retrovirus by biofilm-like extracellular assemblies.

TWiV 126: Wart’s up, doc?

• March 27, 2011

Virologist Michelle Ozbun and the TWiV team review the biology of human papillomaviruses.

TWiV 125: TWiV infects FiB

• March 20, 2011

This Week in Virology and Futures in Biotech join together in a science mashup to talk about a virophage at the origin of DNA transposons, and unintended spread of a recombinant retrovirus.

TWiV 124: Viruses that make you better

• March 13, 2011

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, Rich, and Grant discuss a tanapoxvirus protein that inhibits tumor necrosis factor, purging tumors with myxoma virus, and destruction of the last known stocks of smallpox virus.

TWiV 123: Contaminated prostates, absolute truth, and bleached worms

• March 6, 2011

Vincent, Alan, and Rich talk about XMRV integration sites in prostate tumor DNA, the decline effect and scientific method, and the first virus of Caenorhabditis nematodes.

TWiV 122: More fun than a monkey full of viruses

• February 27, 2011

The complete TWiV crew teams up with Welkin Johnson to explore the other AIDS epidemic, infection of monkeys with simian immunodeficiency virus, and its restriction by the cellular protein TRIM5.