Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy resume the virology 101 series with a discussion of RNA capping, splicing, and export.

Links for this episode:

• Slides for this episode (pdf)
• Spliced Ad 2 late mRNAs (Cell)
• An amazing sequence arrangement (Cell)
• Adenovirus late mRNA undecanucleotide (Cell)
• Aaron Shatkin, 72 (virology blog)
• Schrödinger's cat (Wikipedia)
• Letters read on TWiV 216

Weekly Science Picks

Rich - Linus Pauling's explanation of science (YouTube)Alan - Underwater experimentsKathy - I'm a virus (YouTube)Vincent - Stem cells (Bizarro Comics)

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