Theodora Hatziioannou joins the TWiV team to discuss a macaque model for AIDS, and how a cell protein that blocks HIV-1 infection interacts with double-stranded RNA.

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

Guest: Theodora Hatziioannou

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Links for this episode

• ASU-UofA Joint Virology Symposium
• Laboratory of Retrovirology, Rockefeller University
• HIV-1-induced AIDS in monkeys (Science)
• APOBEC3H bound to duplex RNA (Nat Comm)
• Center for HIV RNA studies
• Image: Two molecules of APOBEC3H bound to dsRNA

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