Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
On episode #123 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Rich talk about XMRV integration sites in prostate tumor DNA, the decline effect and scientific method, and the first virus of Caenorhabditis nematodes.
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Links for this episode:
- Analysis of XMRV integration sites from human prostate cancer (Retrovirology)
- Integration site preference of XMRV (J Virology)
- The Decline Effect and the Scientific Method by Jonathan Lehrer (New Yorker)
- Why most published research findings are false (PLoS Medicine)
- Cochrane Reviews
- Richard Feynman’s 1974 Caltech Commencement Address (pdf) (thanks, Bill!)
- First virus of Caenorhabditis (PLoS Biology)
- Nodaviruses at ViralZone
- Spandrels (thanks, Welkin!)
- TWiV on Facebook
- Letters read on TWiV 123
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Vincent – Stan Maloy interview with Beatrice Hahn on the origins of HIV and malaria
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