Description

The Masters of the TWiXome review the development of sensitive, portable, and field-based viral diagnostics using the CRISPR-Cas system.

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

Become a patron of TWiV!

Links for this episode

• ASM Microbe 2018
• Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference
• Faculty positions at Icahn School of Medicine
• Norovirus outbreaks from nori(Emerging Inf Dis)
• SHERLOCK(Science)
• HUDSON(Science)
• DETECTR(Science)
• Letters readon TWiV 492

Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Decline of local newspapers leaves epidemiologists blind
Kathy- Journal oversight, mental health research
Rich- The Big Sort: An Insider's Tour of a Recycling Plant
Dickson- When Science Meets Art
Vincent - A Crack in Creationby Doudna and Sternberg

Listener Pick

Tom- Trillions Upon Trillions of Viruses Fall From the Sky Each Day

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv