TWiV 349: One ring to vaccinate them all

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan and Rich explain how to make a functional ribosome with tethered subunits, and review the results of a phase III VSV-vectored Ebolavirus vaccine trial in Guinea.

Links for this episode

• Social media specialist position at ASM
• WHO dismisses Catholic church on vaccine safety
• U of T Dean resigns over anti-vaccine course (Tor Star)
• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
• Countering anti-vaccination attitudes (PNAS)
• Designer ribosome (Nature)
• rVSV-EBOV preliminary report (NEJM)
• rVSV-EBOV phase III interim report (pdf, Lancet)
• World on verge of Ebolavirus vaccine (WHO)
• Ebolavirus vaccine in Africa (virology blog)
• Letters read on TWiV 349 11:55

This episode is sponsored by ASM GAP

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