TWiV 340: No shift, measles

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Dickson Despommier , Alan Dove , Rich Condit , and Kathy Spindler The TWiV teams reviews a MERS-coronavirus serosurvey and an outbreak in South Korea, and constraints on measles virus antigenic variation. Links for this episode Richard Elliott on TWiV 177 MERS-CoV outbreak , South Korea (ProMedMail) MERS-CoV serosurvey (Lancet Inf Dis) Biolabs in your backyard (USA Today) Constraints on measles virus antigenic variation (Cell Rep) Selection bias and bombers (John D. Cook) Virology (journal) Image credit: Cameron Moll Letters read on TWiV 340 Weekly Science Picks Dickson - Singapore Flower Dome and Cloud Forest Alan - Rescuing biomedical research Kathy - The value of basic research Rich - Virology 60th Anniversary Issue Vincent - Careers in virology: Science writing and journalism Listener Pick of the Week Pritesh - How T cells kill cancer cells Ramon - The power of herd immunity Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected]