TWiV 424: FLERVergnugen
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Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\\xa0Dickson Despommier,\\xa0Alan Dove,\\xa0Rich Condit, and\\xa0Kathy Spindler
Guest:\\xa0Trudy Rey
Trudy joins the the TWiVlords to discuss new tests\\xa0for detecting prions in the blood, and evidence showing that foamy retroviruses originated in the seas with their jawed vertebrate hosts at least 450 million years ago.
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Links for this episode
- Welcome\\xa0omega tau\\xa0to MicrobeTV
- Register\\xa0for ASV 2017
- Oliver Smithies\\xa0dies
- Assays for prions in the blood (one,\\xa0two)
- Biosafety\\xa0working on prions (Michigan State)
- Marine origin of\\xa0retroviruses\\xa0in Palaeozoic era (Nature Comm)
- Cancer Virus\\xa0by Dorothy Crawford
- Adenovirus and obesity\\xa0(Int J Chronic Dis)
- Image credit
- Letters read\\xa0on TWiV 424
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