Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Paul Duprex

Paul joins the TWiV team to discuss the current moratorium on viral research to alter transmission, range and resistance, infectivity and immunity, and pathogenesis.

Links for this episode

• Wain-Hobson objects (one, two, three, four)
• Influenza H7N1 transmission experiments (J Virol)
• Epistemological perspective on aTRIP experiments (mBio)
• Limited scientific value and risk (mBio)
• Reply to limited scientific value (mBio)
• Risks and benefits of aTRIP experiments (mBio)
• Apocalypse as rhetorical device in aTRIP debate (mBio)
• Moratorium on aTRIP experiments
• Moratorium on aTRIP research (mBio)
• Risks of influenza virus transmission experiments (mBio)
• Reply to risks of influenza virus transmission experiments (mBio)
• Vagueness of moratorium on aTRIP experiments (mBio)
• Role of aTRIP experiments in vaccine recommendation (mBio)
• Use of aTRIP data for surveillance and preparedness (mBio)
• aTRIP towards lexiconic precision (mBio)
• October 2014 NSABB meeting on aTRIP
• NAS aTRIP meeting (YouTube)
• MERS-CoV aTRIP experiments exempted (ScienceInsider)
• aTRIP: time for a debate (Nat Rev Micro)
• Effect of aTRIP moratorium on trainee plans (mBio)
• Make the moratorium permanent (Sci Am)
• Image credirt: John Morris
• Letters read on TWiV 321

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