TWiV considers lessons learned from COVID-19 about emergency drug use during a pandemic, and selection of AAV capsids to produce vectors that efficiently deliver genes to muscle cells.
Links for This Episode
- Emergency drug use during a pandemic (Cell) 5:19.
- Selection of muscle-directed AAV capsids (Cell) 29:24.
- Designer AAV muscles up (Cell) 1:08:28.
- Letters read on TWiV 812 1:46:51.
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.