TWiV 340: No shift, measles

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

The TWiV teams reviews a MERS-coronavirus serosurvey and an outbreak in South Korea, and constraints on measles virus antigenic variation.

• Richard Elliott on TWiV 177


• MERS-CoV outbreak, South Korea (ProMedMail)


• MERS-CoV serosurvey (Lancet Inf Dis)


• Biolabs in your backyard (USA Today)


• Constraints on measles virus antigenic variation (Cell Rep)


• Selection bias and bombers (John D. Cook)


• Virology (journal)


• Image credit: Cameron Moll


• Letters read on TWiV 340

Dickson - Singapore Flower Dome  and Cloud ForestAlan - Rescuing biomedical researchKathy - The value of basic researchRich - Virology 60th Anniversary IssueVincent - Careers in virology: Science writing and journalism

Pritesh - How T cells kill cancer cellsRamon - The power of herd immunity

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