The TWiVumvirate reviews this years crop of Nobel Prizes, and how cells prevent leakage of mitochondrial double-stranded RNA into the cytoplasm, which would otherwise lead to the production of interferon.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

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Sea Phages program and application materials
Plant biologists penalized by CNRS (The Scientist)
2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine (pdf)
2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (pdf)
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics (pdf)
2018 Nobel Peace Prize (Nobel)
Mitochondrial dsRNA triggers IFN (Nature)
Letters read on TWiV 514
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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