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Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\\xa0Dickson Despommier,\\xa0Alan Dove,\\xa0and\\xa0Rich Condit

The TWiVome\\xa0discusses an miRNA based strategy to\\xa0mitigate\\xa0risk of gain of function studies, and identification of a second receptor required for Lassa virus entry.

Links for this episode

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• miRNA strategy\\xa0to minimize risk (Nat BioT)
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• NIH\\xa0Office of Science Policy
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• NIH recombinant DNA\\xa0guidelines
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• Second receptor for\\xa0Lassa virus entry\\xa0(Science)
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• Lassa fever\\xa0(Wikipedia)
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• Fever! The discovery of Lassa virus (TWiV 9)
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• Letters read\\xa0on TWiV 294
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