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Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\\xa0Alan Dove,\\xa0Matt Frieman, and\\xa0Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, Matt, and Kathy review the use of silk to stabilize antibiotics and a viral vaccine, and an impaired-fidelity vaccine against SARS coronavirus.

Links for this episode:

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• Silk stabilization\\xa0of antibiotics and vaccines (PNAS)
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• Impaired-fidelity\\xa0coronavirus vaccine (Nature Medicine)
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• Select agent status\\xa0and SARS therapies (Spoonful of Medicine)
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• Letters read\\xa0on TWiV 207
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