TWiV 321: aTRIP and a pause

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Paul Duprex

Paul joins the TWiV team to discuss the current moratorium on viral research to alter transmission, range and resistance, infectivity and immunity, and pathogenesis.

• Wain-Hobson objects (one, two, three, four)


• Influenza H7N1 transmission experiments (J Virol)


• Epistemological perspective on aTRIP experiments (mBio)


• Limited scientific value and risk (mBio)


• Reply to limited scientific value (mBio)


• Risks and benefits of aTRIP experiments (mBio)


• Apocalypse as rhetorical device in aTRIP debate (mBio)


• Moratorium on aTRIP experiments


• Moratorium on aTRIP research (mBio)


• Risks of influenza virus transmission experiments (mBio)


• Reply to risks of influenza virus transmission experiments (mBio)


• Vagueness of moratorium on aTRIP experiments (mBio)


• Role of aTRIP experiments in vaccine recommendation (mBio)


• Use of aTRIP data for surveillance and preparedness (mBio)


• aTRIP towards lexiconic precision (mBio)


• October 2014 NSABB meeting on aTRIP


• NAS aTRIP meeting (YouTube)


• MERS-CoV aTRIP experiments exempted (ScienceInsider)


• aTRIP: time for a debate (Nat Rev Micro)


• Effect of aTRIP moratorium on trainee plans (mBio)


• Make the moratorium permanent (Sci Am)


• Image credirt: John Morris


• Letters read on TWiV 321

Alan - In a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonPaul - Saving the lives of our dogs (blog post)Kathy - New all-female Lego setDickson - Female storm-chaserVincent - Despommier Photo Art

Jacob - Exaggeration in news and press releases (BMJ)Peter - Quartet game (photos: one, two, three, four, five)

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