TWiV 370: Ten out of 15
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\xa0Alan Dove,\xa0and\xa0Kathy Spindler
\nThe TWiVomics review ten captivating\xa0virology stories from 2015.
\nTen virology stories from 2015\n- \n
- Recoding to make vaccines and study viral functions: TWiV 351: The dengue codeTWiV 362: Gotta catch \u2019em all\xa0and\xa0new paper \n
- Defining the virome: TWiV 365: Blood, feuds, and a foodborne disease, TWiV 362: Gotta catch \u2019em all, TWiV 356: Got viruses?, TWiV 355: Baby\u2019s first virome, TWiV 342: Public epitope #1, TWiV 323: A skid loader full of viromes
- Ebola outbreak wanes, vaccines tested, persistence noted: TWiV 361: Zombie viruses on the loose, TWiV 349: One ring to vaccinate them all, TWiV 341: Ebolavirus experiences, TWiV 336: Brought to you by the letters H, N, P, and Eye, TWiV 335: Ebola lite \n
- Spillovers and scares: TWiV 347: Rose rosette and squirrel roulette, TWiV 351: The dengue code, TWiV 364: It\u2019s not SARS 2.0, TWiV 365: Blood, feuds, and a foodborne disease \n
- The \u201cGain of Function\u201d debate continues: TWiV 321: aTrip and a pause, TWiV 351: The dengue code, TWiV 354: The cat in the HAART, TWiV 363: Eat flu and dyad, and the NSABB\u2019s new draft report \n
- Detailed mechanisms of pathogenesis: TWiV 336: Brought to you by the letters H, N, P, and eye, and TWiV 345: How a vaccine got the nod - plus numerous episodes (324, 328, 329, 330, 339, 343, 349, 353, 369) where we talked about basic research that undergirds these clinically important discoveries. \n
- Dengue vaccines: \xa0Trial TWiV 319: Breaking breakbone.\xa0Dengvaxia was licensed in December in Mexico, Philippines, and Brazil (12/28); paper we didn\u2019t have time to cover about broadly neutralizing Abs from viremic patients\xa0and another paper from same group with X-ray crystal structure of Ab + gpE. \n
- Why do some RNA viruses undergo antigenic variation and others do not? TWiV 340: No shift, measles \n
- TWiV 346: A double helical career \n
- TWiV 345: How a vaccine got the nod \n
- Letters read\xa0on TWiV 370 \n
This episode is sponsored by\xa0ASM Microbe and ASM Biodefense
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Kathy\xa0-\xa0A Year of Sky
Daniel\xa0- Paper Life
Stephen\xa0- How to deal with science denialists
Venkat - Kabisa
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