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TWiV 157: Better innate than never

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, Jeremy Luban, and Gabriel Victora

A large TWiV panel remembers Ralph Steinman, and considers a new innate sensor of retroviral capsids.

Photograph of a dendritic cell (green) interacting with T cells (cyan) near a blood vessel by Gabriel Victora.

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Links for this episode:

• HG Khorana obituary
• DC discovery: four seminal papers (one, two, three, four)
• Ralph Steinman videos from Lasker Award
• TRIM5 is an innate immune retroviral sensor (Nature)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 157

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