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Yes, I’m on Twitter- alandove: Mine get rejected for lack of adequate controls. RT @noahWG My thought experiments rarely yield anything publishable.
- alandove: Whoever's behind the @FakeElsevier tweets is friggin' brilliant. And no, it's not me.
- alandove: A case of scientific censorship that doesn't involve #H5N1: http://t.co/MRx664EW Mining industry vs. NCI and NIOSH.
- alandove: @_colm_ @profvrr @newprof1 Indeed. What good could come of studying deadly microbes, after all?
- alandove: RT @chrislhayes: So, GOP votes against Violence Against Women act, for transvaginal ultrasounds and has an all male hearing on birth con ...
- alandove: Science is sexy, but not like that. @Ananyo Hum. istock thinks this is what a young female scientist looks like http://t.co/mM9KnKX6
- alandove: Blog post: Exploring the Sourdoughome. http://t.co/70vxEEar
- alandove: @easternblot Zhang @ Michigan or some such? Maybe they recently changed their address scheme and a student was just first in line at time.
- alandove: RT @Etche_homo: MT @Etche_homo Heartland buys anti-climate change "scientists" for $300K: p13 of http://t.co/im95AkoM #deniergate
- alandove: I have a "Drafts" folder? How much effort am I supposed to put into these 140-character messages?
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Category Archives: TWiV
TWiV 171: One is the loneliest number
Matt joins the TWiVarians to review virus production in single cells and single virion genomics. Links for this episode: H5N1 results will be published (NY Times) Virus production in single cells then and now Single virion genomics (PLoS One) Multiple displacement amplification (Wikipedia) Ranavirus killing turtles, tadpoles in Maryland … Continue reading
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TWiV 170: From variolous effluvia to VLPs
Alan, Rich, and Dickson discuss Edward Jenner’s paper on cowpox vaccine, then move 200 years later to modern vaccines against norovirus, influenza H5N1, and more. Links for this episode: Norton Zinder, 83 (Reuters) Jenner’s cowpox vaccine paper (Bartleby, Gutenberg) Norovirus VLP vaccine (NEJM) … Continue reading
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TWiV #170 – From variolous effluvia to VLPs
Alan, Rich, and Dickson discuss Edward Jenner’s paper on cowpox vaccine, then move 200 years later to modern vaccines against norovirus, influenza H5N1, and more. Links for this episode: Norton Zinder, 83 (Reuters) Jenner’s cowpox vaccine paper (Bartleby, Gutenberg) Norovirus VLP vaccine (NEJM) … Continue reading
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TWiV 169: Epidemiology causes conclusions (p<0.05)
Michael and the TWiV team review epidemiology basics, including fatality ratios. Links for this episode: Michael’s blog and podcast Epidemiology literature critique (PowerPoint) Seven mistakes in epidemiology (ETE) Snow cholera map TWiV on Facebook Letters read on TWiV 169
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TWiV 168: Super CalTech prophylaxis and ferret runny noses
Welkin joins the TWiV team for a discussion of HIV prophlaxis using vectored antibodies, and the influenza H5N1 virus studies in ferrets that were not redacted. Links for this episode: Vectored HIV immunoprophylaxis (Nature) Vectored immunoprophylaxis - the Movie (YouTube) Adeno-associated virus (Wikipedia) In vitro evolution … Continue reading
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TWiV 167: It starts with a cough
The complete TWiVome deconstructs the movie Contagion.
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TWiV 166: Breaking and entering
Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review cell proteins essential for entry of hepatitis C, Ebola, and measles viruses. Links for this episode: Niemann-Pick C1 is entry factor for HCV (Nature Med) Ebola virus entry requires Niemann-Pick C1 (Nature one, two) Nectin-4 is measles virus … Continue reading
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TWiV 165: The email zone
Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan answer listener questions about XMRV, cytomegalovirus, latency, shingles vaccine, myxomavirus and rabbits, and more.
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TWiV 164: Six steps forward, four steps back
Vincent, Alan, and Rich review ten compelling virology stories of 2011.
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TWiV 163: What Rous wrought
Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review the 100 year old finding by Peyton Rous of a transmissible sarcoma of chickens, a discovery that ushered in the era of tumor virology.
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