TWiV reports the administration putting a choke hold on billions of NIH health research funding, US Senators tell scientists they want to protect the NIH budget, then review a classic experiment showing the mechanism of DNA replication, and explain how jumbo phage DNA is transcribed in a membrane-bound compartment before transfer into proteinaceous “nucleus” compartment.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, Brianne Barker, Jolene Ramsey, and Angela Mingarelli

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Chokehold on billions in NIH funding (WSJ)
Senators want to protect NIH budget (Nature)
Replication of DNA in E. coli (PNAS)
Biography of Franklin Stahl (DNA Learning Center)
Franklin Stahl, 95 (Caltech Magazine)
FW Stahl dies (NY Times)
Requiem for a machine (Small Things Considered)
Membrane and protein bound organelles during phage infection (Cell Host Micr)
Letters read on TWiV 1241
Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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