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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson.

The TWiM team discusses how measles vaccination protects against other infectious diseases, and links between bacterial biofilms and colon cancer.

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Measles vaccination prevents all-cause infectious disease (Science)

Master of contagion (The Loom)

Video: Measles incidence to immunomodulation (Science)

FAQ: Adult vaccines

Metabolism links biofilms and colon cancer (Cell Metab)

Scripps Center for Metabolomics

Scripps metabolite database

Image credit

Sponsors for this episode: SciMedSolutions, ICAAC-ICC

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