Description

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

A swarm of virologists discusses testing of a MERS coronavirus vaccine for camels, and how a neuronal stress pathway reactivates herpes simplex virus.

Links for this episode

• MERS coronavirus vaccine for camels (Science)
• WHO MERS summary
• Neuronal stress pathway and herpes simplex virus reactivation (Cell Host Micr)
• Stress flips a chromatin switch (Cell Host Micr)
• How herpes simplex virus reactivates (UNC press release)
• Histone antibodies database
• New antibody portal (UNC press release)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 369

This episode is sponsored by Clinical Virology Symposium

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