Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The complete TWiV team reads email from listeners about anti-vaccine activists, a career in microbiology, placentas, a virology textbook, the HeLa cell genome, norovirus, and much more.
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Links for this episode:
- Anthropic principle
- 1999 vaccine article by Alan Dove (Nature)
- Snyder’s Omics – Futures in Biotech #93
- Viral infections and diabetes (Adv Exp Med Biol)
- Image credit: Jason Roberts
- Letters read on TWiV 251
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A style guide reference for virology texts seems like it would be a great idea. I would definitely reference it next time I write a paper.
I have also been thinking recently that a style guide would be great—I have been writing one for myself: https://gist.github.com/jshoyer/131a15e9be4690166651
Possible title (twiv 343): “I express my opinions; I do not express proteins”
I liked the discussion of image reuse. I wish more scientific figures were under a CC license or the like.