Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVniacs discuss twenty-eight years of poliovirus shedding by an immunodeficient patient, and packaging of the innate cytoplasmic signaling molecule cyclic GMP-AMP in virus particles.
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- 28 years of poliovirus shedding (PLoS Path) 36:50
- NOT a rare poliovirus (Wash Post) 44:35
- Ukraine polio outbreak (ProMedMail) 41:00
- Virus particle transfer of cGAMP (Science one, two) 47:50
- cGAS on TWiV 222 47:05
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- Letters read on TWiV 353 6:30, 1:10:25
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