TWiV 354: The cat in the HAART

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

The esteemed doctors of TWiV review a new giant virus recovered from the Siberian permafrost, why influenza virus gain of function experiments are valuable, and feline immunodeficiency virus. 

Links for this episode

• Non-viral proteins in vaccinia virus particles (Arch Virol) 8:15
• Thing a week (Jonathan Coulton, downloads) 23:20
• Immortal Life pornographic? Not! (HuffPost) 25:25
• Mollivirus sibericum (PNAS) 27:00
• Don't worry about Frankenvirus (WashPost) 27:10
• We need flu GOF research (article, Wisc State J, Science) 40:35
• Isolation of FIV (Science) 50:20
• FIV at Cornell Vet 1:06:25
• FIV latency (Retrovirol) 1:08:00
• FIV-receptor interactions (Curr Op Virol) 1:08:45
• Clin aspects FIV infection (Viruses)
• FIV antivirals (Viruses) 1:10:05
• How to treat FIV 1:10:45
• Bud's FIV therapy 1;10;50
• FIV vectors (CSH Prot) 1:13:50
• Lion FIV (Proc Biol Sci)
• FIV in cat species (J Virol) 1;01;45
• ACIP HVP vaccine recommendations (MMWR) 1:28:45
• HPV and cancer (CDC) 1:33:45
• Cervical cancer screening (pdf, CDC)
• Letters read on TWiV 354 7:45, 1:17:10

This episode is sponsored by ASMGAP

Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks!

Weekly Science Picks 1:40:40

Alan - Experience CuriosityRich - Primrose SchoolKathy - Egg drop solutionsDickson - Dragonflies by Pieter van DokkumVincent - NASA guide to air-filtering houseplants

Listener Pick of the Week

Amir - Publons (Nature article)

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