TWiV 1105: All the T and B in China
TWiV reviews influenza H5N1 in North American cows and in birds throughout New York City, polio health emergency extended, ChatGPT to control vaccine hesitancy, increasing viral hepatitis worldwide, dengue public health alert in Puerto Rico, cherry trees drowning in Washington DC, death of iron lung Paul, origin and dispersal history of hepatitis B virus in Eastern Eurasia, and antibody-independent protection against heterologous SARS-CoV-2 challenge. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links fo...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 14, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1081: I opened the pig sty and in flew enza
TWiV reviews the latest virology news, how infection with a plant virus causes insect to grow long wings, and reverse zoonoses of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza viruses in US swine. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Angela Mingarelli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Become a member of ASV (asv.org) Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) The New City by Dickson Despommier Midwife gave children pellets instead of vaccin...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - January 21, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1066: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses a microbiologist who was harassed during COVID pandemic sues university, use of inactivated poliovirus vaccine for poliovirus outbreak response, safety and immunogenicity of bivalent rsvpref vaccine coadministered with seasonal inactivated influenza vaccine in older adults, coffee as a dietary strategy to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection, enrollment of pediatric patients in COVID-19 interventional trials, vaccination, immunity, and the changing impact of COVID-19 on infant health, COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against post- COVID -19 condition among 589722 individuals in Sw...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - December 2, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Traditional Chinese Medicine for STEMI, Early Metformin for Gestational Diabetes, Review of Knee Pain, and more
Editor’s Summary by Karen E. Lasser, MD, MPH, Senior Editor of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the October 24/31, 2023, issue. Related Content: Audio Highlights (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - October 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Traditional Chinese Medicine Meets Evidence-Based Medicine in the Acutely Infarcted Heart
JAMA Executive Editor Gregory Curfman, MD, speaks with Richard G. Bach, MD, professor of medicine and medical director of the cardiac intensive care unit at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, about the use of traditional Chinese medicine to treat patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Related Content: Traditional Chinese Medicine Meets Evidence-Based Medicine in the Acutely Infarcted Heart (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - October 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1040: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the public health significance of finding autochthonous melioidosis cases in the continental United States, human neural larva migrans caused by Ophidascaris robertsi ascarid, Project nextgen awards over $1.4 billion to develop the future of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, excess all-cause mortality in China after ending the zero COVID policy, international pediatric COVID-19 severity over the course of the pandemic, differences in SARS-CoV-2 specific humoral and cellular immune responses after contralateral and ipsilateral COVID-19 vaccination, Pfizer and BioNTech ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - September 2, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1019: Eddie Holmes on SARS-CoV-2 origins
From ASM Microbe in Houston, Texas, Vincent speaks with Eddie Holmes about the evidence that SARS-CoV-2 spilled over into humans in the Huanan Market in Wuhan, absence of evidence for other origins, and his work on the virosphere. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guest: Eddie Holmes Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Huanan Seafood Market early COVID-19 epicenter (Science) SARSr-CoV-2 in Malayan Pangolins (PLoS Path) Zoonotic risk of farmed animals (Cell) Virusea at bat-tick interface (Microb Genom) Influenza H3N8 vir...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - June 25, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 999: Vaccinated to the nines
TWiV notes Ashish Jha’s call for doctors to combat a vacuum of medical information while ignoring our contributions, China CDC’s surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan Seafood Market, and an experimental infectious attenuated COVID-19 vaccine that elicits superior mucosal and systemic immunity in hamsters. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Register for ASV 2023 MicrobeTV Discord Server Jha ignores TWiV contribution to disseminating science i...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 9, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants
Why some countries, such as China, vaccinate flocks against bird flu but others don’t, and male ants that are always chimeras
First up this week, highly pathogenic avian influenza is spreading to domestic flocks around the globe from migrating birds. Why don’t many countries vaccinate their bird herds when finding one case can mean massive culls? Staff News Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the push and pull of economics, politics, and science at play in vaccinating poultry against bird flu.
Next up, a crazy method of reproduction in the yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes). Hugo Darra...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants
Why some countries, such as China, vaccinate flocks against bird flu but others don’t, and male ants that are always chimeras
First up this week, highly pathogenic avian influenza is spreading to domestic flocks around the globe from migrating birds. Why don’t many countries vaccinate their bird herds when finding one case can mean massive culls? Staff News Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the push and pull of economics, politics, and science at play in vaccinating poultry against bird flu.
Next up, a crazy method of reproduction in the yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes). Hugo Darra...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 997: Inside Omicron with Mohsan Saeed
Mohsan joins TWiV to discuss the work of his laboratory showing that spike and nsp6 are determinants of Omicron attenuation, and why the work was widely misinterpreted by the press and the public. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Guest: Mohsan Saeed Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode •Register for ASV 2023 •MicrobeTV Discord Server • Spike and nsp6 determinants of Omicron attenuation (Nature) •China releases genomic data from Wuhan market (Science) •Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Rich – For pian...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 2, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 976: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses China reporting almost 60,000 Covid-related deaths after abrupt shift in policy, detection of SARS-CoV-2 IgA and IgG in human milk and breastfeeding infant stool 6 months after maternal COVID-19 vaccination, effect of Fluvoxamine vs placebo on time to sustained recovery in outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19, hyperimmune globulin for severely immunocompromised patients hospitalized with COVID-19, long COVID outcomes at one year after mild SARS-CoV-2 infection, long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations, a systematic review of trials currently inves...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - January 21, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 970: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses modelling the adjustment of COVID-19 response and exit from dynamic zero-COVID in China, canine real-time detection of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the context of a mass screening event, two masks can be worse than one: N95 respirator failure caused by an overlying face mask, airflow patterns in double-occupancy patient rooms may contribute to roommate-to-roommate transmission of severe SARS-CoV-2, clinical validation of a novel T-Cell receptor sequencing assay for identification of recent or prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity against SARS-...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - December 31, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Human brain organoids implanted into rats could offer new way to model disease
In this episode:00:45 Implanted brain organoids could offer new insights into diseaseBrain organoids — lab-grown, self-organizing structures made of stem cells — are used in research to better understand brain development and disease progression. However, these structures lack connections seen in real brains, limiting their usefulness. To overcome this, a team has now transplanted human organoids into the brains of newborn rats, showing that these implanted organoids respond to stimuli and could influence the animals’ behaviour.Research article: Revah et al.News and Views: Human brain organoids influence rat behaviou...
Source: Nature Podcast - October 12, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
A trove of ancient fish fossils helps trace the origin of jaws
In this episode:00:45 Piecing together the early history of jawed vertebratesA wealth of fossils discovered in southern China shed new light onto the diversity of jawed and jawless fish during the Silurian period, over 400 million years ago. Nature editor Henry Gee explains the finds and what they mean for the history of jawed vertebrates like us.Research article: Zhu et al.Research article: Gai et al.Research article: Andreev et al.Research article: Andreev et al.News and Views: Fossils reveal the deep roots of jawed vertebrates09:09 Research HighlightsMice studies help explain why some people with a rare genetic conditio...
Source: Nature Podcast - September 28, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
