TWiV 860: Evading a Toll on the road to RNA vaccines - a podcast by Vincent Racaniello
from 2022-01-30T05:00
TWiV reviews a seminal paper showing that chemically modified bases in RNAs suppress recognition by Toll-like receptors, a finding that that was essential for the development of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
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- Vaccine Town Hall (ASV)
- Columbia University BSL-3 Manager position
- RNA modifications suppress innate recognition (Immunity)
- Critical contribution of pseudouridine (Front Cell Dev Biol)
- Rich Condit reminisces (YouTube)
- Letters read on TWiV 860
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