TWiV 1107: Uncoating some envelopes
It has been a long time since TWiV has released an all listener email episode, and if you have been waiting for one, then this episode is for you! (and everyone else of course). Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Brianne Barker 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) The New City by Dickson Despommier (blog post) International Conference on Pandemic Preparedness Letters read on TWiV 1107 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Cats...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 21, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Why COP28 probably won't keep the 1.5 degree dream alive
In this episode:00:49 What to expect at COP28.The UN’s annual climate change conference is starting soon in Dubai. This time will be the first time that humanity formally assesses its progress under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, so we ask if this challenge of keeping warming below 1.5 ËšC can be met and what needs to happen at COP28 to make it a reality. News Feature: Is it too late to keep global warming below 1.5 °C? The challenge in 7 charts10:49 Research HighlightsFalcons show off their smarts, and how smoke from California wildfires made Europe cloudy.Research Highlight: These falcons excel at problem-solving â...
Source: Nature Podcast - November 29, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Talking overdiagnosis
In this month's Talk Evidence, Helen and Juan are reporting from Preventing Overdiagnosis - the conference that raises issues of diagnostic accuracy, and asks if starting the process of medicalisation is always the right thing to do for patients.
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In this episode, they talk about home testing, sustainability and screening. They're also joined by two guests to talk about the overdiagnosis of obesity - when that label is stigmatising and there seem to be few successful treatments that medicine can offer, and the need to educate students in the concepts of overdiagnosis and too much medicine, to create a culture change in m...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 16, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1003: Going clinically viral
Vincent and Kathy travel to Atlanta for APHL ID Lab Con, a conference focused on the latest developments in detecti​​on and characterization of infectious diseases of public health concern, and speak with Megan, Ryan, and Kirsten about the workings of public health and clinical laboratories. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Kathy Spindler Guests: Megan Crumpler, Ryan Relich, and Kirsten St. George Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server APHL Lab ID CON Association of Public Health Laboratories Orange County Public He...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 30, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
New worries about Earth ’s asteroid risk, and harnessing plants’ chemical factories
On this week’s show: Earth’s youngest impact craters could be vastly underestimated in size, and remaking a plant’s process for a creating a complex compound
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First up this week, have we been measuring asteroid impact craters wrong? Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about new approaches to measuring the diameter of impact craters. They discuss the new measurements which, if confirmed, might require us to rethink just how often Earth gets hit with large asteroids. Paul also shares more news from the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas.
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Source: Science Magazine Podcast - March 23, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
New worries about Earth ’s asteroid risk, and harnessing plants’ chemical factories
On this week’s show: Earth’s youngest impact craters could be vastly underestimated in size, and remaking a plant’s process for a creating a complex compound
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First up this week, have we been measuring asteroid impact craters wrong? Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about new approaches to measuring the diameter of impact craters. They discuss the new measurements which, if confirmed, might require us to rethink just how often Earth gets hit with large asteroids. Paul also shares more news from the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas.
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Next up, pulling together all the e...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - March 23, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 974: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses poliovirus returns to New York wastewater, COVID-19 is more widespread in animals than we thought, increasing ventilation reduces SARS-CoV-2 airborne transmission in schools, the use of carbon dioxide monitoring to assess ventilation at a national infectious diseases conference, effectiveness of the bivalent mRNA vaccine in preventing severe COVID-19 outcomes, 7-month duration of SARS-CoV-2 mucosal immunoglobulin-A responses and protection, and long COVID outcomes at one year after mild SARS-CoV-2 infection. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - January 14, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
COP27 Climate Change Conference —Urgent Action Needed for Africa and the World
Interview with Chris Zielinski, Visiting Research Fellow and Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Winchester, UK, James Kigera, Editor-in-Chief, Annals of African Surgery, and James Tumwine, Editor-in-Chief, African Health Sciences, authors of COP27 Climate Change Conference—Urgent Action Needed for Africa and the World. Hosted by JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD. Related Content: COP27 Climate Change Conference—Urgent Action Needed for Africa and the World Conflict and Climate Collide to Create an Acute Hunger Crisis for an Unprecedented 345 Million People Climate Justice and Healt...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - November 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
How a key Alzheimer's gene wreaks havoc in the brain
00:46 Artemis 1 is go!NASA’s Artemis 1 mission has successfully reached Earth orbit. After weeks of delays and issues, and a nail biting launch, the rocket marks the first step in a new era of moon exploration, with plans to test a new way to return astronauts to the moon. We caught up with reporter for all-things-space, Alex Witze, for the latest.News: Lift off! Artemis Moon rocket launch kicks off new era of human exploration10:06 Research HighlightsThe unlevel playing field in women’s football, and domed structures provide evidence for a biological origin of stromatolites.Research Article: Okholm Kryger et al.Resear...
Source: Nature Podcast - November 16, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Molecular cages sift 'heavy' water from near-identical H2O
00:49 Separating heavy water with molecular cagesHeavy water is molecule very similar to H2O but with deuterium isotopes in the place of hydrogen atoms. Heavy water is useful in nuclear reactions, drug design and nutritional studies, but it's difficult to separate from normal water because they have such similar properties. Now, a team have developed a new separation method using tiny molecular cages, which they hope opens up more energy efficient ways to produce heavy water.Research article: Su et al.News and Views: A molecular flip-flop for separating heavy water07:23 Research HighlightsHow dancers can feel the beat even...
Source: Nature Podcast - November 9, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Flies can move their rigid, omnidirectional eyes – a little
00:46 How flies can move their eyes (a little)It's long been assumed flies’ eyes don’t move, and so to alter their gaze they need to move their heads. Now, researchers have shown that this isn’t quite true and that fruit flies can actually move their retinas using a specific set of muscles, which may allow them to perceive depth. The team also hope that this movement may provide a window into some of the flies’ internal processes.Research article: Fenk et al.08:54 Research HighlightsHow the 80-year-old wreck of a sunken warship is influencing ocean microbes, and tracing an epilepsy-related gene variant back to a si...
Source: Nature Podcast - November 2, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 950: Prion diseases with Richard Knight
From the European Society for Clinical Virology 2022 Conference in Manchester UK, Vincent speaks with Richard Knight about prion diseases and the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalitis that led to cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guest: Richard Knight Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode National CJD Research and Surveillance Unit Clinical diagnosis of human prion disease (Prog Mol Biol Trans Sci) Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (Handbook Clin Viral) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (Adv Exp Med Bi...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - October 30, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 937: Pediatric hepatitis with Emma Thomson
From the European Society for Clinical Virology 2022 Conference in Manchester UK, Vincent speaks with Emma Thomson about the recent outbreak of pediatric hepatitis of unknown etiology and the finding that it is linked to infection by adenovirus-associated virus 2. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello Guest: Emma Thomson Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Thomson laboratory Emma on TWiV 188 and TWiV 341 AAV2-associated pediatric hepatitis (bioRxiv) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - September 18, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence - shoulders, knees, and woes
In this episode, Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ EBM, and Helen Macdonald, The BMJ's research integrity editor, sit down to discuss what's new in the world of evidence.
Firstly, last week they went to the first EBM Live conference for two years - and report back on what happened when the evidence community got back together.
We have two research papers looking at knees and shoulders, and finding out about the balance of risks and benefits.
In covid news, we're still finding new symptoms associated with infection, 2.5 years after the pandemic started. We'll also hear how complex it is to research vaccine efficacy now...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 31, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence - shoulders, knees, and woes
In this episode, Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ EBM, and Helen Macdonald, The BMJ's research integrity editor, sit down to discuss what's new in the world of evidence.
Firstly, last week they went to the first EBM Live conference for two years - and report back on what happened when the evidence community got back together.
We have two research papers looking at knees and shoulders, and finding out about the balance of risks and benefits.
In covid news, we're still finding new symptoms associated with infection, 2.5 years after the pandemic started. We'll also hear how complex it is to research vaccine efficacy now...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 31, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
