Description

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

The TWiVers explain how a protein platform assists the hepatitis C virus RNA polymerase to begin the task of making viral genomes.

Links for this episode

• NYAS Afterschool STEM Mentoring Program
• Concerns about editing the human germline (Science, Nature)
• Engineering the perfect baby (MIT Tech Rev)
• RNA recognition by HCV polymerase (Science)
• Kickstarting an RNA polymerase (Science)
• A protein platform for priming (virology blog)
• Apoenzyme and holoenzyme (Wikibooks)
• Ebolavirus will not become a respiratory pathogen (virology blog)
• Burkholderia pseudomallei (CDC)
• Letters read on TWiV 330

Timestamps by Jennifer. Thank you!

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