This Week in Virology TWiV #53 - The ends justify the means
Oct 11, 2009
01:01:45
Vincent, Dick, and Alan talk about Nobel prizes for telomere research, bacteriophages that protect aphids from wasps, salicylates and pandemic influenza mortality, and hand washing.
Links for this episode:- Bacteriophages encode toxins that protect aphids from wasps
- 14 year old dies after receiving HPV vaccine
- Salicylates and pandemic influenza mortality
- Canadian microbiologist says hand washing is not proven to prevent influenza
- Surgical mask vs N95 respirator for preventing influenza
- Americans unsure about receiving pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine
- DnaTube (thanks Jim!)
- Laboratory Director certification (pdf - thanks Megan!)
- Plant production of pharmaceuticals (pdf one and pdf two - thanks Ed!)
Alan sciencelineDick Younger by Judith Sulzberger MDVincent FluView