Description

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

Matt updates the TWiV team on MERS-coronavirus, and joins in a discussion of whether we should further regulate research on potentially pandemic pathogens.

Links for this episode

• MERS stories at CIDRAP
• MERS at CDC
• MERS in the US (CDC)
• MERS-CoV map
• MERS-CoV infection after camel exposure (EID)
• MERS-CoV in dromedaries from Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia (EID)
• MERS-CoV antivirals (one, two, three, four)
• Experiments with novel potential pathogens (PLoS Med)
• Unacceptable risks (Bull Atom Sci)
• TWiX Bingo (thanks, Mark!)
• Letters read on TWiV 287

Weekly Science Picks

Matt - Forgive me, scientists
Alan - Do not link
Vincent - bioRxiv
Kathy - Snail photographs
Dickson - Solar roadways

Listener Pick of the Week

Daniel - Benz Biome concept car

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