TWiV 382: Everyone's a little bit viral
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Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\\xa0Dickson Despommier,\\xa0Alan Dove\\xa0and\\xa0Kathy Spindler
\\nGuests: Nels Elde and Edward Chuong
\\nNels and Ed\\xa0join the TWiV team to talk about their observation\\xa0that regulation of the human interferon response depends on regulatory sequences that were co-opted millions of years ago from endogenous retroviruses.
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\\nLinks for this episode
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- Endogenous retroviruses and regulation of innate immunity (Science) \\n
- Placenta is viral (Nature) \\n
- An ERV that maintains pluripotency of human embryonic stem cells (TWiV 279) \\n
- Letters read on TWiV 382 \\n
This episode is sponsored by ASM\\xa0Agar Art Contest and\\xa0ASV 2016
\\nWeekly Science Picks
\\nNels\\xa0- Don\'t Get Me Started - Matt Giorgianni
Alan\\xa0-\\xa0Sun\'s magnetic field (paper)
Dickson\\xa0-\\xa0Most realistic dinosaur terrifies
Vincent\\xa0- Top secret!
Kathy\\xa0-\\xa0Zika virus risk for US 50 cities (paper)
Ed\\xa0- Watching comb jellies poop
Listener Picks
\\nAsal - Lost paper of Gregor Mendel
Dennis - PhysicsGirl
Jacob\\xa0- Second (XKCD) and ACI blogger interview
Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
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