TWiV 363: Eat flu and dyad

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

The TWiVers reveal influenza virus replication in the ferret mammary gland and spread to a nursing infant, and selection of transmissible influenza viruses in the soft palate.

 

Links for this episode

• Photos of my visit to OHSU (Facebook) 6:30
• Folta departs (Facebook) 9:25
• T-VEC approved for melanoma (FDA) 14:45
• Talimogene laherparepvec (Wikipedia) 15:10
• T-VEC phase III trial (J Clin Oncol) 17:35
• How drugs are named (PopSci) 16:35
• Influenza transmission in mother-child dyad (PLoS Path) 23:10
• Soft palate and influenza transmission (Nature) 41:00
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 363 1:09:30

This episode is sponsored by Mt. Sinai Department of Microbiology, ASM Education, and ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Conference

Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks!

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