TWiV 379: A mouse divided

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Guest: Scott Tibbetts Scott Tibbetts joins the TWiVists to describe his work on the role of a herpesviral nocoding RNA in establishment of peripheral latency, and then we visit two last minute additions to the Zika virus literature. Links for this episode Noncoding RNA required for establishment of latency (mSphere) 17:20 Lessons learned from in vivo studies of a viral noncoding RNA (mSphere) 1:05:05 Zika virus in pregnant women in Rio de Janeiro (NEJM) 1:06:10 Zika virus infects cortical neural progenitors (Cell Stem Cell) 1:12:00 Image credit Letters read on TWiV 379 1:15:10 This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and Microbe Magazine Podcast 4:15, 1:05:25 Weekly Science Picks 1:42:45 Alan - Okeanos ExplorerDickson - Rome RebornVincent - Twitter Missing ManualScott - Best Science Images of 2015Kathy - Space Travel PostersRich - GoISSWatch Listener Pick Peter - Antibiotics and the Problem of the Broken Market Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]