TWiV 426: I'm Axl, and I'll be your cervid today
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\xa0Alan Dove,\xa0Rich Condit, and\xa0Kathy Spindler
The sages of TWiV\xa0explain how chronic wasting disease of cervids could\xa0be caused by spontaneous misfolding of prion protein, and the role of the membrane protein Axl in Zika virus entry into cells.
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