TWiV 253: I don't know anything about sorghum

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

In this second consecutive all-email episode, the complete TWiV team reads questions and comments from listeners about systemic antiviral responses, wild type poliovirus in Israel, Turkish scientists, viral symbiotes, and much more.

Links for this episode:

• One Nation in support of biomedical research?
• Bilim Kazani (The Cauldron of Science)
• Science for Gezi
• State of Turkish Science
• Pathogenesis of feline coronavirus (EID)
• Dinosaurs plagued by infection (PLoS One)
• Dinosaur renaissance (WikiPedia)
• Birds are dinosaurs (AMNH)
• Influenza vaccine enhances disease in pigs (Sci Transl Med)
• Gut microbes influence B-cell development (Nature)
• Circovirus in dogs (EID)
• We the microbiologist
• Letters read on TWiV 251

Weekly Science Picks

Dickson - HD slow motion montage (YouTube)Kathy - Damselflies and Eyewitness appAlan - Space weather forecast (YouTube)Rich - 1984 by George Orwell (Doublethink)Vincent - PopSci comments off and Why so few women in science?

Listener Pick of the Week

Meika - Flip action roll (YouTube)CN - Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm GladwellBernadeta - Higgs Boson wins Nobel Prize

Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected]