Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, and Kathy review the finding that rabies virus infection alters but does not kill neurons, and provide an update on the novel coronavirus in the Middle East.
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Links for this episode:
- Neuronal survival after rabies virus infection (PLoS Path)
- Clusters of coronavirus cases (Nature)
- ProMedMail on novel coronavirus
- Novel coronavirus outbreak news (Int J Inf Dis)
- Genomic characterization of novel coronavirus (mBio)
- Broad cell tropism of novel coronavirus (mBio)
- Are viruses alive? (poll at virology blog)
- Antibodies taken up by endocytosis (PNAS)
- Antibody eliminates alphaviruses from neurons (Science)
- Image: Virus in the garden by Helen Hache
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I was disappointed that the sum total of actual discussion on the titled viruses only last about 38 minutes. Would have been nice if y’all could have cut down on the chit chat and discussed these two viruses in more depth.