TWiV 390: Building a better mosquito trap
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guests: Ethan Jackson and Jonathan Carlson
Project Premonition, a Microsoft Research project that uses\xa0drones to capture mosquitoes and analyze them for pathogens, preprint servers, and\xa0three mouse models for Zika virus induced birth defects\xa0are the topics of this episode hosted by the TWiumvirate and theirs guests Ethan and Jonathan.
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Links for this episode- Project Premonition
- Premonition feasibility study in Grenada
- Zika virus causes microcephaly in mice (Cell Stem Cell)
- Brazilian Zika virus causes defects in experimental models (Nature)
- Zika virus causes placental damage and fetal demise in mice (Cell)
- Letters read on TWiV 390
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