TWiV 415: Ebola pipettors and the philosopher's clone

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Jeremy Luban, Aaron Lin, and Ted Diehl

Jeremy, Aaron, and Ted join the TWiV team to discuss their work on identifying a single amino acid change in the Ebola virus glycoprotein from the West African outbreak that increases infectivity in human cells.

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Links for this episode

• Ebola virus glycoprotein with increased infectivity (Cell)
• Effect in cells of Ebola virus mutations from West African outbreak (Cell)
• Ebola virus in semen for over 500 days (Clin Inf Dis)
• Puzzling origin of 2014 Ebola virus outbreak (J Virol)
• Mutant Ebola virus may have caused explosive outbreak (Goats and Soda)
• Virus Genomics and Evolution website

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