MWV 110 - How to Create Agar Art Using Living Microbes (Audio Only)

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MWV 111 (audio only) TWiM live at Microbe: Rigor, lotteries, and moonshots

At Microbe 2017 in New Orleans, the TWiM team speaks with Arturo Casadevall about his thoughts on the pathogenic potential of a microbe, rigorous science, funding by lottery, and moonshot science. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. Gu ...  Show more

MWV 109 - The Never-ending Vaccine Race (Audio Only)

Veteran medical journalist Meredith Wadman discusses her book The Vaccine Race. It tells the timely, epic, and controversial story of the development of the first widely-used normal human cell line and, through it, important viral vaccines, including the vaccine for rubella (Germ ...  Show more

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