This Week in Virology

TWiV 122: More fun than a monkey full of viruses

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Created on Sunday, 27 February 2011 15:29

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts:Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Welkin Johnson

The complete TWiV crew teams up with Welkin Johnson to explore the other AIDS epidemic, infection of monkeys with simian immunodeficiency virus, and its restriction by the cellular protein TRIM5.

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Links for this episode:

• Edwin Kilbourne, MD, 1920-2011
• Evolution of TRIM5-CypA in Old World monkeys (PLoS Pathogens)
• Balancing selection and evolution of Old World TRIM5 (PNAS)
• TRIM5 and cross-species transmission of a primate retrovirus (PLoS Biology)
• Infectious retrovirus in pet vaccines (J Virology)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 122

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Vincent - US Supreme Court decision on vaccine litigation (NY Times)

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