TWiV 1241: The most beautiful experiment

TWiV reports the administration putting a choke hold on billions of NIH health research funding, US Senators tell scientists they want to protect the NIH budget, then review a classic experiment showing the mechanism of DNA replication, and explain how jumbo phage DNA is transcribed in a membrane-bound compartment before transfer into proteinaceous “nucleus” compartment.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, Brianne Barker, Jolene Ramsey, and Angela Mingarelli

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Links for this episode

• Support science education at MicrobeTV 5:13
• Chokehold on billions in NIH funding (WSJ)
• Senators want to protect NIH budget (Nature)
• Replication of DNA in E. coli (PNAS)
• Biography of Franklin Stahl (DNA Learning Center)
• Franklin Stahl, 95 (Caltech Magazine)
• FW Stahl dies (NY Times)
• Requiem for a machine (Small Things Considered)
• Membrane and protein bound organelles during phage infection (Cell Host Micr)
• Letters read on TWiV 1241
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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