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

The TWiVome dissect the finding that interferon lambda alleles predict the outcome of hepatitis C virus infection.

Links for this episode * Interferon lambda and HCV outcome (Cell Host Micr) * Laser capture microdissection (Wikipedia) * HCV dependent fluorescent reporter (Nat Biotech) * Bats and viruses (PLoS Path) * White nose syndrome (PLoS Path) * Mouse phenome database * Letters read on TWiV 273

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Dickson - Visualization challenge 2013 Vincent - Orphan Black
Kathy - Alberta worm invasion project

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Anne - Luke Jerram's glass viruses
Jim - NLM Communications Engineering Branch
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