TWiV 126: Wart’s up, doc?

On episode #126 of the podcast This Week in Virology, virologist Michelle Ozbun and the TWiV team review the biology of human papillomaviruses.

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• Human papillomavirus page at CDC
• Human papillomavirus vaccines page at CDC
• A better test for HPV (pdf)
• Human papillomaviruses and malignancy (review)
• Should smallpox stocks be destroyed? ( poll at virology blog )
• Letters read on TWiV 126

Michelle – HIV-1 utilizes chemokine receptor CXCR4 to enter stem cells ( PubMed )
Dickson – Bengladesh bans sale of palm sap ( NY Times )
Rich – The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas ( “On Warts” – pdf)
Alan – Planting Science – students, teachers, and scientists collaborate on botany experiments
Vincent – CIDRAP – Center for Disease Research and Policy

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