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Published: Dec. 15, 2013, 10:05 p.m.

Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier,\xa0Alan Dove,\xa0Rich Condit,\xa0Kathy Spindler, and\xa0Ben tenOever

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Ben joins the TWiV team to reveal the winner of his contest in which influenza viruses carrying different interferon-stimulated genes vie against one another in mice.

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• Game of clones\xa0(Vax Rep)
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• Game of clones\xa0bracket
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• Letters read\xa0on TWiV 263
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