Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVerati revisit possible sexual transmission of Zika virus, and reveal how a cell protein that allows hepatitis C virus replication in cell culture enhances vitamin E mediated protection against lipid peroxidation.
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- Late sexual transmission of Zika virus (Lancet) 8:10
- Zika virus disease in US (CDC) 11:30
- Zika virus lab accident (ABC News) 25:30
- Mosquito eradication (virology blog) 20:35
- Florida mosquito control (TWiV 111) 19:35
- How tequila mosquito (TWiV 178) 23:55
- SEC14L2 allows HCV replication in cell culture (Nature) 27:15
- Lipid peroxidation (Wikipedia) 39:40
- HCV replicase regulated by lipid peroxidation (Nat Med) 41:15
- Letters read on TWiV 393 52:00
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