TWiV 505: Rosebola

The TWiV hosts review persistence of Ebola virus after the end of the Liberian outbreak, and the potential role of two herpesviruses in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

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

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Links for this episode

• Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference
• Trump picks science advisor (Scientist)
• Hendra vaccine: no effect on horses racing (Aust Vet J)
• Persistence of Ebola virus (Lancet Inf Dis)
• New Ebolavirus outbreak (Telegraph)
• Alzheimer's disease and herpesviruses (Neuron)
• Herpesviruses, beta-amyloid and Alzheimer's disease (Neuron)
• Letters read on TWiV 505

Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Impossible Burger Rich - SpaceX Just Sent Algae to the ISS, Here's How It'll Power Deep Space Missions Dickson - Art and Science Intersection (Art Science Museum) Brianne - Why it is not a 'failure' to leave academia Kathy- 2003 video history of nuclear explosions 1945 - 1998 Vincent - Revisionist History Episode 8 and Episode 9

Listener Pick

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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