TWiV 166: Breaking and entering
Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review cell proteins essential for entry of hepatitis C, Ebola, and measles viruses. Links for this episode: Niemann-Pick C1 is entry factor for HCV (Nature Med) Ebol...
15 Jan 20121h 38min
TWiV 165: The email zone
Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan answer listener questions about XMRV, cytomegalovirus, latency, shingles vaccine, myxomavirus and rabbits, and more.
8 Jan 20121h 41min
TWiV 164: Six steps forward, four steps back
Vincent, Alan, and Rich review ten compelling virology stories of 2011.
1 Jan 20121h 39min
TWiV 163: What Rous wrought
Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review the 100 year old finding by Peyton Rous of a transmissible sarcoma of chickens, a discovery that ushered in the era of tumor virology.
25 Dec 20111h 41min
TWiV 162: Transcription
Vincent, Rich, and Alan continue Virology 101 with a discussion of transcription, the process of making mRNA from a DNA template.
18 Dec 20111h 33min
TWiV #161 - Concerto in B
Vincent, Rich, Alan and Gabriel review the production of antibodies by B cells, and how high affinity antibodies are selected in the germinal centers of lymph nodes.
11 Dec 20111h 57min
TWiV #160 - Moore tumor viruses
The TWiV team speaks with Patrick Moore about his discovery, with Yuan Chang, of two human tumor viruses, Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus and Merkel cell polyomavirus.
4 Dec 20111h 49min
TWiV #159 - Flu gets the REDD light
Vincent, Alan, and Rich review concern over an influenza H5N1 transmission experiment, and a new host defense protein against RNA viruses.
27 Nov 20111h 19min
