The TWiVumvirate reviews this years crop of Nobel Prizes, and how cells prevent leakage of mitochondrial double-stranded RNA into the cytoplasm, which would otherwise lead to the production of interferon.

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

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Links for this episode

• Sea Phages program and application materials
• Plant biologists penalized by CNRS (The Scientist)
• 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine (pdf)
• 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (pdf)
• 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics (pdf)
• 2018 Nobel Peace Prize (Nobel)
• Mitochondrial dsRNA triggers IFN (Nature)
• Letters read on TWiV 514
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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