Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Preprint servers, the structure of an antibody bound to Zika virus, blocking Zika virus replication in mosquitoes with Wolbachia, and killing carp in Australia with a herpesvirus are topics of this episode hosted by Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy.
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Links for this episode
- biorXiv preprint server 8:55
- Please review Vaccines and Your Child 37:00
- Structure of antibody bound to Zika virus E protein (Cell Host Microbe) 50:45
- Wolbachia blocks Zika virus in mosquitoes (Cell Host Microbe) 58:25
- Zimmer on Wolbachia and Zika virus (NY Times) 59:45
- Fauci on Zika virus vaccine (Science) 1:13:50
- Carpageddon (The Conversation) 1:15:30
- Letters read on TWiV 388 5:40
Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks!
Image: A single molecule of the Zika virus E glycoprotein (red) bound to a broadly neutralizing antibody (green). The fusion loop on the E protein, which is recognized by the antibody, is shown in yellow.
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Interesting episode (as always). There is a fascinating paper out there which shows videos of mosquitos probing for blood vessels. Very interesting to see: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050464