TWiM #158: The bot­tom line

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The TWiM team con­sid­ers a re­port on prokary­otic vi­ral DNA in mam­malian brain, and how di­ar­rhea is ben­e­fi­cial, by clear­ing en­teric pathogens.

Hosts: Vin­cent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swan­son and Elio Schaechter.

 

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Links for this episode

• Prokary­otic vi­ral se­quence in the brain (PNAS)

• Di­ar­rhea clears en­teric pathogens (Cell Host Mi­crobe)

• Tight junc­tion bi­ol­ogy (Turner Lab­o­ra­tory)

• Let­ters read on TWiM 158

  
  

 

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