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TWiV reviews a Lassa virus mRNA vaccine that confers protection against disease without inducing neutralizing antibodies, and a CRISPR-based method for engineering the genome of RNA viruses.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Angela Mingarelli
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- Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf)
- Virologist Bob Lamb dies (Northwestern Now)
- Lassa virus mRNA vaccine (Nat Commun)
- CRISPR engineering of RNA viruses (Sci Adv)
- Letters read on TWiV 1045
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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