TWiM #158: The bottom line

The TWiM team considers a report on prokaryotic viral DNA in mammalian brain, and how diarrhea is beneficial, by clearing enteric pathogens.

Hosts:

Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Elio Schaechter.

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Links for this episode

• Prokaryotic viral sequence in the brain (PNAS)

• Diarrhea clears enteric pathogens (Cell Host Microbe)

• Tight junction biology (Turner Laboratory)

• Letters read on TWiM 158

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