TWiV 478: A pox on your horse
The TWiV team explains how infectious horsepox virus - likely the ancestor of smallpox vaccines - was recovered from chemically synthesized DNA fragments.
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier,\xa0Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
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Links for this episode- ASV 2018: asv.org, asv2018.umd.edu
- Potential Zika virus related birth defects, USA (MMWR)
- Bordering on an outbreak (Tex Obs)
- Horsepox virus from synthesized DNA (PLoS One)
- Horsepox based smallpox vaccine (NEJM)
- Has horsepox become extinct?\xa0(Vet Rec)
- Evolutionary path of smallpox vaccines (Lancet Inf Dis)
- Equination (Vaccine)
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiV 478
Kathy - UM EEB photo contest
Rich - Dino-Lite digital microscope and digital microscope camera
Dickson - Sandford Photography
Alan - A list of female virologists
Vincent\xa0- Virology Lectures 2018
Andrew - Interferome
Neva - The Untreatable by Gavin Francis
Intro music is by\xa0Ronald Jenkees.
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