TWiV 364: It's not SARS 2.0

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Rich Condit , and Kathy Spindler Guests: Ralph Baric and Vineet Menachery Vincent, Rich, and Kathy speak with Ralph and Vineet about their research on the potential of SARS-like bat coronaviruses to infect human cells and cause disease in mice. Links for this episode Zoonotic potential of SARS-like bat viruses (Nature) SARS-CoV susceptibility loci via collaborative cross (PLoS Genetics) 47:00, 57:25 Ebright and Wain-Hobson quotes (Nature) 1:17:20 Misleading press release (UNC) 1:24:45 Super powerful SARS 2.0 (not!) (Motherboard) SARS-like bat virus can jump without mutating (not!) (Daily Mail) 1:26:30 Photo credit Letters read on TWiV 364 1:47:40 This episode is sponsored by Mt. Sinai Department of Microbiology (2:10) , ASM Education (33:25) , and the 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium (1:51:30) Timestamps by Jennifer . Thanks! Weekly Science Picks 1:53:00 Kathy - California Dept of Public Health Rich - Leafy greens on space station Vincent - Mechanical keyboards and TWiV on Perfect your podcast Listener Picks Jesse - Networking for Nerds by Alaina G. Levine Russell - Worldmapper Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]