Description

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

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, Rich, and Kathy review two papers that present evidence for RNA interference as an antiviral immunity mechanism in mammals.

Links for this episode:

• World Polio Day
• Mole Day
• John Holland's publications
• RNAi is antiviral in mammals (Science)
• Antiviral RNA interference in mammals (Science)
• RNAi, antiviral after all (Science)
• Is RNA interference antiviral in mammals? (Cell Host Microbe)
• Nodamura virus (Nature)
• Ebolavirus proteins suppress RNAi (J Virol)
• Illustrated is an siRNA (orange), dicer (top right), and argonaute (bottom)
• Letters read on TWiV 256

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