This Week in Virology13 Nov 2016

TWiV 415: Ebola pipettors and the philosopher's clone

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Jeremy Luban, Aaron Lin, and Ted Diehl

Jeremy, Aaron, and Ted join the TWiV team to discuss their work on identifying a single amino acid change in the Ebola virus glycoprotein from the West African outbreak that increases infectivity in human cells.

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Links for this episode

Ebola virus glycoprotein with increased infectivity (Cell)
Effect in cells of Ebola virus mutations from West African outbreak (Cell)
Ebola virus in semen for over 500 days (Clin Inf Dis)
Puzzling origin of 2014 Ebola virus outbreak (J Virol)
Mutant Ebola virus may have caused explosive outbreak (Goats and Soda)
Virus Genomics and Evolution website

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