MicrobeWorld

TWiV 192: Viral tertulia

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener email about bioinformatics, insects, influenza, laboratory classes, commensalism, reproducibility of data, and more.

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Links for this episode:

• Vaccinia virus sequence from patient with vaccine complication (pdf)
• The evolution of intellectual freedom (thanks, Robin!)
• Free access to British scientific research (Guardian)
• xTAG respiratory viral panel
• Houston rabies case (Statesman)
• Tertulia (Wikipedia)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 192

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