This Week in Virology

TWiV 81: Be a virus, see the world

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Created on Sunday, 09 May 2010 14:16

Written by Vincent Racaniello

On episode #81 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Rich answer listener questions on viruses and gluten allergy, RNA silencing, influenza virus, herpes simplex virus, HIV/AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome, manicure salons, and the koala tea of Marseilles.

Host links Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Links for this episode:

• Virus infections and gluten intolerance on TWiS (thanks Jesper!)
• Viral small RNAs in PLoS Pathogens (thanks Jason!)
• Canadian Summit Awards (thanks Jim!)
• Experimenting with phage at home (thanks Richard!)
• CRISPR discovered by a dairy company (thanks Joel!)
• Expedition to New Guinea to sample bird viruses - movie and blog entry (thanks Henrik!)
• Preventing herpes with arginine and lysine - pdf (thanks Anthony!)
• Chronic fatigue donors face rejection (thanks James!)
• The Koala tea of Marseilles is not strained (thanks Stephen!)
• The other Larson virus cartoon (jpg)
• Letters read on TWiV 81

Weekly science picks:

Rich Google Chrome browser 'speed test' (and how it was made)
Vincent Inside the Outbreaks by Mark Pendergrast

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TWiV #81 (68 MB .mp3, 94 minutes)

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