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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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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