TWiV #47 - Vertical vaccine farm

Vincent and Dick discuss influenza virus-like particle vaccines produced in insect and plant cells, rapid sharing of influenza research, and answer listener questions about cytomegalovirus, viral evolution and symbiosis and much more.

Links for this episode:

• A Farm on Every Floor
• Influenza virus-like particles in insect and plant cells
• PLoS Currents: Influenza
• Transmission of 2009 H1N1 influenza virus to turkeys [Thanks Debbie!]
• Baxter produces Vero cell H1N1 vaccine [Thanks Peter!]
• Boundaries of Darwinism podcast [Thanks David!]
• Phages in human intestine: papers one, two, three [Thanks Terry!]
• Post-exposure varicella vaccine [Thanks Patricia!]
• Open science movement here, here, here, and here [Thanks Jim!]
• Graduate programs in virology [Thanks Greggory and Blake!]
• Post-exposure Marburg and Ebola vaccines [Thanks John!]
• Vaccinia infection in the laboratory [Thanks Russ!]
• Animations of bacteriophage T4 life cycle [Thanks Jim!]

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