Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Matt Frieman
Matt joins the TWiVarians to review virus production in single cells and single virion genomics.
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Links for this episode:
- H5N1 results will be published (NY Times)
- Virus production in single cells then and now
- Single virion genomics (PLoS One)
- Multiple displacement amplification (Wikipedia)
- Ranavirus killing turtles, tadpoles in Maryland (Washington Post)
- Three Dog Night
- TWiV on Facebook
- Letters read on TWiV 171
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Any virology blog that includes a Three Dog Night link is a a blog for me…B-)
The biosecurity people’s arguments are reminding me of Condaleeza Rice’s “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” Frustrating because it’s not a totally invalid arguement but it too often keeps things from being fixed in the hopes of keeping things from getting worse.
Thanks for mentioning my virus, ranaviruses.