TWiV reviews a Lassa virus mRNA vaccine that confers protection against disease without inducing neutralizing antibodies, and a CRISPR-based method for engineering the genome of RNA viruses.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Angela Mingarelli
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- Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) 4:20
- Virologist Bob Lamb dies (Northwestern Now) 4:48
- Lassa virus mRNA vaccine (Nat Commun) 6:18
- CRISPR engineering of RNA viruses (Sci Adv) 34:11, 36:06
- Letters read on TWiV 1045 57:53
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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