Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Vincent, Alan, and Rich review the making of a virulent poxvirus by insertion of the gene encoding IL-4, and severe 2009 H1N1 influenza due to pathogenic immune complexes.
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- Expression of IL-4 makes a killer poxvirus
- Additional studies on poxvirus-IL-4 recombinants
- Creation of killer poxvirus could have been predicted
- Interleukin regulation of Th responses
- Severe pandemic H1N1 disease due to immune complexes
- Unusually high influenza mortality in 18-65 years old
- The complement system
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- Letters read on TWiV 112
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Hi!
Looking at the years, this is probably not the one reader Brent was looking for, but good stuff nonetheless.
“Il était une fois… la vie” / “Once upon a time… Life”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284735/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6G986lpag
Educational and fun, we did indeed watch quite a bit of this in the early school years..
eetu.