TWiV #73 - Entering the ends
On episode #73 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Dickson, and Rich\xa0discuss multipotent progenitor bone marrow cells as a reservoir of HIV-1, integration of HHV-6 into telomeres, and dispersal of West Nile virus across the US by mosquitoes.
\nHost links Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit
\nLinks for this episode:\n- \n
- HIV-1 infects multipotent progenitor cells \n
- HHV-6 genome integrates into telomeres \n
- A role for mosquito-mediated dispersal of West Nile virus across the US \n
- Using tobacco mosaic virus to produce synthetic photovoltaic cells (thanks Nissin!) \n
- Animation of HIV replication cycle (thanks Ilya!) \n
- Can computer viruses evolve? (thanks Norman!) \n
- Mumps outbreak in Israel (one and two) (thanks Ariel!) \n
- Bocavirus infections in children (thanks Tyler!) \n
Dickson Whole-Genome Sequencing in a Patient with Charcot\u2013Marie\u2013Tooth Neuropathy (NEJM and NY Times)
Rich Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene by Stephen Hall
Vincent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections - videocasts