Lynda Coughlan joins the weekly virtual bus companions for a discussion of a host defense peptide from frogs that destroys influenza virus, and mouse models for acute and chronic hepacivirus infection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Lynda Coughlan

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Links for this episode

• Linda on Virus Watch and BSGCT
• Anti-influenza peptide from frogs (Immunity)
• Magainins (Wikipedia)
• Urumi
• Kathy's defensin paper (PLoS Path)
• World Hepatitis Day
• Mouse model for hepacivirus infection (Science)
• Letters read on TWiV 452

Weekly Science Picks

Kathy - US rivers as subway map Lynda - No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses by Peter Piot Alan - Apollo-era computers found in dead engineer's basement Vincent - 110 NFL Brains, research article in JAMA and The best science is often accidental

Listener Pick

Stig - Security Now! and The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee Ricardo - John Oliver on Vaccines

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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