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...
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This Week in Virology with Vincent Racaniello
This Week in Virology is a netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Three virology professors and a scienc writer explain how viruses infect, spread, and hurt or help the host.
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20 of 143 episodesTWiV 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...
TWiV 1351: Ebola Virus Brains and Contagious Catfish Cancers
TWiV describes a human cerebral organoid model for Ebola virus persistence, and brown bullhead catfish melanoma, a novel transmissible cance...
TWiV 1350: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are perplexed by the state of global public health as malaria, cholera...
TWiV 1349: Smallpox and mummies
TWiV explains how liquid–liquid phase separation and a phage-encoded inhibitor cooperatively drive transcriptional transition during phage S...
TWiV 1348: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are troubled by the latest executive order changing routine childhood v...
TWiV 1347: No Short Answers for Long COVID
TWiV explains research showing that Long COVID is associated with reactivation of numerous chronic viruses, including herpesviruses and anel...
TWiV 1346: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are distressed by Erica Schwartz’ confirmation as CDC director, the GAO...
TWiV 1345: Rocky Mountain Virology High
TWiV travels to Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, where he speaks with Angela Bosco-Lauth, Rebekah Kading, and Mark Stenglein about...
TWiV 1344: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the numerous attempts by states to roll back vaccine laws, the...
TWiV 1343: Batting averages and stolen bases
TWiV explains research which shows that Per os infectivity factors are essential for bracovirus infection and wasp parasitism, and that peri...
TWiV 1342: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello explore the source/not source of the national cyclospora outbreak, trus...
TWiV 1341: Phage breaks and COVID origins
TWiV explains research that reveals dual activity of a phage-encoded lysin that modulates infection dynamics in a mycobacteriophage, and ref...
TWiV 1340: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello debate if Senator Mitch McConnell’s recent hospitalization is due to po...
TWiV 1339: Ebola up close with Tom Ksiazek
Tom Ksiazek, a world-renowned virus expert with 40 years of experience on the front lines of some of the worst outbreaks the world has ever...
TWiV 1338: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are dismayed over the military deaths due to the voluntary influenza va...