TWiV 295: A nonslip grippe and Lassa's LAMP

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

The TWiVome discusses an miRNA based strategy to mitigate risk of gain of function studies, and identification of a second receptor required for Lassa virus entry.

Links for this episode

• miRNA strategy to minimize risk (Nat BioT)
• NIH Office of Science Policy
• NIH recombinant DNA guidelines
• Second receptor for Lassa virus entry (Science)
• Lassa fever (Wikipedia)
• Fever! The discovery of Lassa virus (TWiV 9)
• Letters read on TWiV 294

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