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Published: June 8, 2014, 3:51 p.m.

Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\xa0Dickson Despommier,\xa0Alan Dove,\xa0Rich Condit, and\xa0Kathy Spindler

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The Twivsters discuss how reverse transcriptase encoded in the human genome might produce DNA copies of RNA viruses in infected cells.

\nLinks for this episode\n

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• Should variola virus be\xa0destroyed? (poll at virology blog)
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• DNA complementary to\xa0non-retroviral RNA viruses\xa0(Sci Rep)
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• Integration of arenavirus DNA\xa0into cell genome (virology blog)
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• Infectious\xa0respiratory syncytial DNA (PNAS)
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• Tysabri and PML
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• JC and PML\xa0(J Imm Res)
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• Igor Koralnik laboratory
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• Jean-Luc Doumont (Kathy's pick, TWiV 268)
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• Bullet points kill\xa0(TED)
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• Letters read\xa0on TWiV 288
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Vincent\xa0-\xa0American Society for Virology on Facebook
Kathy\xa0-\xa0LEGO\xa0female scientists
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