TWiV 1371: How to Bat Away Marburg Virus
TWiV discusses an outbreak of H5N1 influenza viruses in Utah farmed mink, and divergent species-specific antiviral responses in Marburg viru...
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20 of 1,407 episodesTWiV 1370: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are distressed by the continued upheaval of leadership at the CDC, rece...
TWiV 1369: Florida Model Makes Measles Great Again
TWiV explains projected effects of removing school-entry vaccination requirements on measles transmission in Florida and evidence that HLA c...
TWiV 1368: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are discouraged by the continuous attack on vaccines especially the bir...
TWiV 1367: Turning Off Hepatitis B Virus Without Cutting its DNA
TWiV explains a study which shows that influenza A virus infection induces immune dysregulation in the placenta and fetus without vertical t...
TWiV 1366: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are crestfallen to learn of the 6 th measles death in Pennsylvania and...
TWiV 1365: Andes Virus Up Close
TWiV travels to Porto, Portugal for the annual meeting of the European Society for Clinical Virology, where he speaks with Catherine and Cor...
TWiV 1364: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss their continuing struggle to understand the ongoing outbreak of...
TWiV 1363: A Cauldron of Bats
TWiV explains a study testing how 16 hypothesized social and environmental drivers impact disease outbreaks, concluding that infectious dise...
TWiV 1362: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello continue their ongoing exasperation over 5 deaths in Pennsylvania assoc...
TWiV 1361: Ancient Viral Sword and Shield
TWiV explains discovery of a previously unknown mechanism of RNA-guided DNA recognition for genetic control that possibly predates the emerg...
TWiV 1360: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello frustration continues over the increasing number of measles infections,...
TWiV 1359: SSPE, the Long Shadow of Measles
Roberto Cattaneo and Kalpana Yadav join TWiV at the 2026 meeting of the American Society for Virology to discuss how the absence of measles...
TWiV 1358: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are angered by the continuous reporting of measles deaths in the US and...
TWiV 1357: Furin, Naturally with Paul Bieinasz
Paul Bieniasz joins TWiV to discuss his lab's discovery that the coronavirus nuclease NSP15 cuts viral RNA into oligonucleotides that are re...
TWiV 1356: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello delve into dengue virus infections in Florida, recent human rabies infe...
TWiV 1355: Four billion years of AI training data
TWiV reviews a landmark paper reporting the first generative design of complete viral genomes using AI, producing 16 viable bacteriophages t...
TWiV 1354: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello remember Dolly Parton and her patronage of science, especially developm...
TWiV 1353: Phage bet-hedging and EBV antibodies
TWiV explores how bacteriophages enable bet-hedge against bacterial immune defenses, and how transgenic mice engineered to produce human ant...
TWiV 1352: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are disheartened by the suggested change in federal vaccine recommendat...