TWiV 355: Baby's first virome
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiV team considers the effect of a Leishmaniavirus on the efficacy of drug treatment, and the human fecal virome and microbiome in twins during early infancy.
Links for this episode
Announcing mSphere
Leishmania virus influences drug outcome (paper 1, paper 2)
Human gut virome and microbiome in infants (Nat Med)
Multiple displacement amplification (Wiki)
Virome of adult twins (Nature)
Illumination by Kevin Folta
Folta story at RetractionWatch
Image credit
Letters read on TWiV 355
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