TWiV 254: Ninety-nine macaques on the wall

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Dickson Despommier , Alan Dove , and Kathy Spindler Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy review clearance of simian immunodeficiency virus infection from macaques by immunization with SIV proteins encoded in a rhesus cytomegalovirus vector. Links for this episode: Immune clearance of SIV infection (Nature) Rhesus CMV vectors (Nature Medicine) Types of memory T cells (WikiPedia) Goldilocks approach to vaccines (Scilogs) Chimeric HA influenza vaccine (J Virol) Influenza vaccine matched vs mismatched (BMC Medicine) Letters read on TWiV 254 Weekly Science Picks Dickson - The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono Kathy - A boy and his atom and Moving Atoms (YouTube) Alan - It is pitch dark and Get Lamp (YouTube) Vincent - Who's afraid of peer review ? (Science) Listener Pick of the Week Maren - Hello Maestro ( episodes on YouTube) Ayesha - Why you don't f****** love science Jon - A Capella Science (YouTube) Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected]