Episode Details

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Ralph Baric and Vineet Menachery

Vincent, Rich, and Kathy speak with Ralph and Vineet about their research on the potential of SARS-like bat coronaviruses  to infect human cells and cause disease in mice.

Links for this episode

• Zoonotic potential of SARS-like bat viruses (Nature)
• SARS-CoV susceptibility loci via collaborative cross (PLoS Genetics) 47:00, 57:25
• Ebright and Wain-Hobson quotes (Nature) 1:17:20
• Misleading press release (UNC) 1:24:45
• Super powerful SARS 2.0 (not!) (Motherboard)
• SARS-like bat virus can jump without mutating (not!) (Daily Mail) 1:26:30
• Photo credit
• Letters read on TWiV 364 1:47:40

This episode is sponsored by Mt. Sinai Department of Microbiology (2:10), ASM Education (33:25), and the 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium (1:51:30)

Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks!

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