The TWiV hosts discuss the distribution of prions in the eyes of patients with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, and the origins and evolution of RNA viruses.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
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- Please take the TWiV listener survey 2:33
- ASV 2019 Satellite Symposia 4:06
- Crowdfunding for EV-D68 research 8:38
- Aaron Klug, 1926-2018 (Nature) 11:44
- Prions in sCJD eyes (mBio) 19:20
- Evolution of RNA viruses (mBio) 33:17
- Walter Gilbert’s The RNA World (Nature) 1:23:03
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- Letters read on TWiV 526 10:14, 1:23:27
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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