TWiV 265: This year in virology

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Alan Dove , Rich Condit , and Kathy Spindler In their final episode of the year, the TWiV team reviews ten compelling virology stories from 2013. Links for this episode Antiviral RNAi (TWiV 255 , 256 , 263 ) MERS-CoV (TWiV 215 , 223 , 224 , 233 , 239 , 247 , 251 , 258 ) Placental trophoblasts confer viral resistance (TWiV 241 ) Origin of REV (TWiV 248 ) Phage T7 gets a cat scan (TWiV 220 ) It's a cGAS! (TWiV 222 ) Dual virus-host arms race (TWiV 242 ) Pandoraviruses (TWiV 246 , 261 ) CMV based SIV vaccine (TWiV 254 ) Threading the NEIDL Letters read on TWiV 265 Video of this episode - view at YouTube Weekly Science Picks Kathy - Women in Science Alan - Contagium Rich - RC helicopter ( demo ) Vincent - The athletic power of quadcopters Listener Pick of the Week Lindsay - Alcohol consumption and vaccines (Vaccine) Johnye - The Singing Microbiologist Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected]