TWiV 220: Flu watches the clock while T7 gets a CAT scan

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Rich, Alan, and Kathy discuss regulation of influenza virus replication by splicing, and the bacteriophage T7 random walk.

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Links for this episode:

• Influenza splicing regulates infection (Cell Reports)
• Reporting on flu splicing from NPR, BBC, NBC
• Splicing of influenza RNA 8 (jpg)
• Bacteriophage T7 remodeling during infection (Science)
• Cryo-ET of intact cells (Trends Cell Biol)
• T7: The Movie (YouTube)
• Cry0-EM vs Cryo-ET (Wikipedia)
• Virus caught in the act (e! Science News)
• Letters read on TWiV 220

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