TWiV #79 - Red hot chili viruses
- Author
- Vincent Racaniello
- Published
- Sun 25 Apr 2010
- Episode Link
- http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/twivmp3/~3/l18IdORfOyo/twiv-79-red-hot-chili-viruses
On episode #79 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Alan converse about making published science accessible to everyone, global eradication of poliomyelitis, and whether a plant virus can cause disease in humans.
Host links Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove
Links for this episode:
- Making published science accessible to everyone (Nature News)
- Federal Research Public Access Act
- Is disease eradication a waste of money?
- Do we have an ethical obligation to eradicate polio?
- Signs of progress in polio eradication (NY Times)
- Polio eradication: Harder than it looks (Fortner)
- Gates rethinks his war on polio (WSJ)
- Asymptomatic wild-type poliovirus infection in immune children (J Inf Dis)
- Can a plant virus cause disease in humans? (PLoS One)
- Replication of tomato spotted wilt virus in HeLa cells (PNAS)
- Glycine detected in comet (thanks Vincent!)
- Letters read on TWiV 79
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