This Week in Virology

TWiV 187: The mummy

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Created on Monday, 11 June 2012 01:55

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Vincent and Rich discuss recovery of a hepatitis B viral genome from a 16th century Korean mummy, and personal omics profiling of an individual over a 14 month period.

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• Tracing HBV to the 16th century (Hepatology)
• HBV on TWiV
• Precautions with ancient DNA (Science)
• Personal omics profile over 14 months (Cell)
• A geneticist's research turns personal (NY Times)
• Mike Snyder on Futures in Biotech
• The DASH diet
• TWiV on Facebook
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