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Nature Podcast: 22 September 2016
This week, a sea of viruses, defining social class, the human journey out of Africa and human remains found on Antikythera shipwreck. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - September 21, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts

The ethics of placebo
In a clinical trial, we usually think of risk in terms of the new active compound - will it have unwanted effects. However, two analyses in The BMJ are concerned about the risk associated with the control arm. Robin Emsley is a professor of psychiatry at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, he and colleagues have written about the risk associated with forgoing treatment in patients with schizophrenia. Read the full analysis: http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i4728 Jonathan Mendel, lecturer in human geography at the University of Dundee, and Ben Goldacre, senior clinical research fellow at the University of Oxford, ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 16, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Podcast: Ending AIDS in South Africa, what makes plants gamble, and genes that turn on after death
Listen to stories on how plants know when to take risks, confirmation that the ozone layer is on the mend, and genes that come alive after death, with Online News Editor David Grimm. Science news writer Jon Cohen talks with Julia Rosen about South Africa’s bid to end AIDS. [Image: J.Seita/Flickr/Music: Jeffrey Cook] (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 30, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 368: Infected, you will be
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler A plaque of virologists explores the biology of Zika virus and recent outbreaks, and the contribution of a filamentous bacteriophage to the development of biofilms. Links for this episode More cowbell (Wikipedia) Microcephaly in Brazil (Outbreak News) Non-vector borne Zika transmission (EID) Zika virus outside Africa (EID) Zika virus possible sexual transmission (EID) Zika virus in saliva (J Clin Virol) Dengue's cousin Zika (Micr Inf) Filamentous phage promote biofilm assembly (Cell Host Micr) Biofilm history (MSU) Pseudomonas phage Pf1 Image credit...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - December 20, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

Endovascular thrombectomy for stroke, trends in prescription drug use in the US, HAART for HIV-infected children in South Africa, and more.
Editor's Audio Summary by Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the November 03, 2015 issue (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - November 3, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

" Heart Beast " -- The Discovery Files
For over 30 years, Terrie Williams has been studying exercise physiology in wild animals: African lions and wild dogs, dolphins and whales, coyotes and mountain lions, as well as a few human athletes. She has put mountain lions on treadmills and strapped heart-rate monitors onto big-wave surfers at Mavericks. These studies have given Williams, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, a unique perspective on exercise and health. (Source: The Discovery Files)
Source: The Discovery Files - October 2, 2015 Category: Science Authors: National Science Foundation Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 349: One ring to vaccinate them all
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan and Rich explain how to make a functional ribosome with tethered subunits, and review the results of a phase III VSV-vectored Ebolavirus vaccine trial in Guinea. Links for this episode Social media specialist position at ASM WHO dismisses Catholic church on vaccine safety U of T Dean resigns over anti-vaccine course (Tor Star) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Countering anti-vaccination attitudes (PNAS) Designer ribosome (Nature) rVSV-EBOV preliminary report (NEJM) rVSV-EBOV phase III interim report (pdf, Lancet) World on ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 9, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 348: Chicken shift
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit Vincent and Rich discuss fruit fly viruses, one year without polio in Nigeria, and a permissive Marek's disease viral vaccine that allows transmission of virulent viruses. Links for this episode Virology tenure-track position at NCI (pdf) ASM Agar Art Contest Nigeria on brink of polio eradication (Nature) Dengue in Africa (Tyler Sharp) Permissive vaccines and virulence (PLoS Biol) Marek's disease vaccines and virulence (Ed Yong) Image credit Letters read on TWiV 348 This episode is sponsored by ASM GAP Weekly Science Picks Rich - Swan-Ganz catheter (Wiki, v...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 2, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts