TWiV #89 - Where do viruses vacation?
On episode #89 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Alan review recent findings on the association of the retrovirus XMRV with ME/CFS, reassortment of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in swine, and where influenza viruses travel in the off-season.
\nHost links Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove
\nLinks for this episode:\n- \n
- Conflicting XMRV papers on hold \n
- Leak of PNAS paper \n
- CDC study on XMRV in CFS patients (Retrovirology) and Science update \n
- Where influenza viruses travel in the off season (EurekaAlert! and PLoS Pathogens) \n
- NPR article on Ebola siRNA treatment (thanks, Andreas!) \n
- Priming mechanism for reovirus entry (thanks, Agyeman-Badu!) \n
- Wired article on science PR (thanks, Dan!) \n
- Letters read on TWiV 89 \n
Alan - Tree of Life graphic
Vincent - TEDx Oil Spill