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Episode 514
Published 7 years, 3 months ago
Description
The TWiVumvirate reviews this years crop of Nobel Prizes, and how cells prevent leakage of mitochondrial double-stranded RNA into the cytoplasm, which would otherwise lead to the production of interferon.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
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Links for this episode
- Sea Phages program and application materials
- Plant biologists penalized by CNRS (The Scientist)
- 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine (pdf)
- 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (pdf)
- 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics (pdf)
- 2018 Nobel Peace Prize (Nobel)
- Mitochondrial dsRNA triggers IFN (Nature)
- Letters read on TWiV 514
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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Alan- Compound Interest chemistry graphics
Kathy- Writing letters of recommendation Guidelines Trix & Psenka Schmader et al. Madera et al.
Dickson- Japan Fireworks
Vincent - The Game of T-Cells and Apple Park Lego
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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.
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