The Guardians of the TWiV-o-verse discuss the process of codon deoptimization for the production of experimental infectious attenuated viral vaccines, and how a respiratory syncytial virus with 619 base changes was rescued by genomes with very large internal deletions.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode * NIDO 2021 Symposium * ASV hosts free COVID-19 Vaccine Education Town Halls (register here) * Research position in Spindler laboratory * Attenuation of poliovirus by codon deoptimization (Science) * Rescue of codon-deoptimized RSV by large deletions (PNAS) * Letters read on TWiV 740 * Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Vincent – Glass music by Robert Tiso

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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