TWiV 1273: EBV and lupus have not escaped our notice
Update: 2025-11-23
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TWiV explains the 1953 paper by Watson & Crick proposing a structure for DNA, and the role of Epstein-Barr virus in triggering the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus.
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- Support science education at MicrobeTV
- Immune 100 live at the Incubator
- CDC revives debunked 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism (npr)
- A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid (Nature pdf)
- Three Papers, Three Lessons (Am J Resp Crit Care Med)
- Discovery of Double Helix (Crick Papers)
- Jim Watson was blinded by DNA (NY Times)
- What Rosalind Franklin contributed (Nature)
- EBV reprograms autoreactive B-cells in lupus (Sci Transl Med)
- EBV and the making of lupus (Sci Transl Med)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees
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