TWiV 165: The email zone

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove

Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan answer listener questions about XMRV, cytomegalovirus, latency, shingles vaccine, myxomavirus and rabbits, and more.

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Links for this episode:

• Human CMV incorporates antibody into virions (Cell Host Microbe)
• Probing influenza virion with a supercomputer (Chinese Sci Bull)
• Hallmarks of cancer (Cell)
• Dr. Eric Schadt talk, Mt. Sinai
• Bacteriophage T4 tattoo
• Virology meme
• Sociedad Española de Virología
• Norovirus takes to the skies (Sci Am) and journal article (Clin Inf Dis)
• Propose an ASM General Meeting session
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 165

Weekly Science Picks

Dickson – Creation
Rich – America’s Science Decline
Alan – Out of context science
Vincent – The Scientist Top 10 Innovations 2011

Listener Pick of the Week

Jim – Christoph Adami: Finding life we can’t imagine (TED)
Tim – Patient Zero (Radiolab)
Mary – Natural Obsessions by Natalie Angier
Jimmy – Science Exchange

Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv.