TWiV 295: A nonslip grippe and Lassa's LAMP
- Author
- Vincent Racaniello
- Published
- Sun 27 Jul 2014
- Episode Link
- http://www.twiv.tv/2014/07/27/twiv-295/
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
The TWiVome discusses an miRNA based strategy to mitigate risk of gain of function studies, and identification of a second receptor required for Lassa virus entry.
Links for this episode
- miRNA strategy to minimize risk (Nat BioT)
- NIH Office of Science Policy
- NIH recombinant DNA guidelines
- Second receptor for Lassa virus entry (Science)
- Lassa fever (Wikipedia)
- Fever! The discovery of Lassa virus (TWiV 9)
- Letters read on TWiV 294
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