Episode Details

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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• 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

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

Mark- TWIV bingo (png)

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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