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TWiEVO 21: A virus with a green thumb
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105 minutes
Released:
Jul 13, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
Rich Condit joins Nels and Vincent to explain how a vaccinia virus protein customizes ribosomes to favor the translation of viral mRNAs with a stretch of A residues in the 5'-untranslated region. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Become a patron of TWiEVO Rich Condit with Harry Noller (scroll down) Trans-Kingdom mimicry? (Nature) More on RACK1 (Nat Struct Mol Biol) Image credit Letters read on TWiEVO 21 This episode is brought to you by Blue Apron. Blue Apron is the #1 fresh ingredient and recipe delivery service in the country. See what’s on the menu this week and get your first 3 meals free with your first purchase – WITH FREE SHIPPING – by going to blueapron.com/twie. Science Picks Rich - Sniffing out significant “Pee values” Nels - Cuttlefish mimicking a hermit crab (evolutionary context) Vincent - Our first bioRxiv submission! Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to twievo@microbe.tv
Released:
Jul 13, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (96)
TWiEVO 1: When (scientific) worlds collide: Hosts: and Nels and Vincent launch a new podcast on evolution, and start by discussing how the field has changed through recent mergers of evolutionary and experimental biology in the post-genome era. Links for this episode Elde... by This Week in Evolution