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 1089: Shoot out at the Circle-T ranch
TWiV reviews a fatal Alaskapox case, MERS in Kenya, diagnostic tests for Nipah and Lassa diseases, HPV vaccination rates in the US, cases of measles in Arizona and Minnesota, hepatitis C virus-derived RNA circles in infected cells, and prevention of respiratory virus transmission by resident memory CD8+ T cells. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, 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) Research assistant position in ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 18, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1079: Rock of phages
TWiV reveals how viruses participate in the organomineralization of travertines, and how neutralizing antibodies evolve to exploit vulnerable sites in the hepatitis C virus envelope glycoprotein E2 and mediate clearance of infection. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, 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) Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) The New City by Dick...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - January 13, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 998: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the White House COVID adviser calling on doctors to combat a vacuum of medical information, adeno-associated virus type 2 in US children with acute severe hepatitis, genomic investigations of unexplained acute hepatitis in children, surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan seafood market, vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization among adolescent and pediatric SARS-CoV-2 cases between May 2021 and January 2022 in Canada, effectiveness of BNT162b2 after extending the primary series dosing interval in children and adolescents aged 5–17, prevalence and characteristics...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 8, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 995: Viral origin stories
TWiV discusses genetic evidence of susceptible wildlife in SARS-CoV-2 positive samples at the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, polio cases in African linked to a new polio vaccine that was designed to not cause the disease, and structural conservation of hepatitis B virus capsid proteins over millions of years despite a shift from a naked to an enveloped capsid. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 995 (74 MB .mp3, 123 min) Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode •Register for ASV 2023 •MicrobeTV Discord Server • More evidence for SARS-CoV-2 s...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 26, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 911: Antibody can get vaccinated now
TWiV provides an update on hepatitis of unknown etiology in children, an experimental nanoparticle vaccine for Epstein-Barr virus, and minimal impact of bamlanivimab therapy on antiviral antibodies induced by vaccination. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Hepatitis of unknown etiology (MMWR) Clinical recognition of monkeypox (CDC) Epstein-Barr virus nanoparticle vaccine (Cell Rep Med) Minimal impact of mAb therapy on COVID vaccine induced antibodies (Sci Trans Med) L...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - June 19, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Sotrovimab for Mild to Moderate COVID-19, Myocardial Infarction After Hepatitis B Vaccine, Review of Antiseizure Medications for Epilepsy, and more
Editor’s Summary by Christopher Muth, MD, Senior Editor of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the April 5, 2022 issue. (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - April 5, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 691: SciArt with Laura Splan
SciArtist Laura Splan joins TWiV to reveal her transdisciplinary work that intersects science, technology, design and culture, then we discuss an inverse correlation between mumps virus antibodies induced by MMR vaccine and COVID-19 severity, and whether ivermectin is indicated for treatment of COVID-19. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Guest: Laura Splan Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Laura Splan website BSL-3 Assistant Manager position MMR titers in recovered COVID-19 patients (mBio) Ivermectin and SAR...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - December 10, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 649: Ohio State viral
Vincent visits Ohio State University (March 2020) and speaks with Shan-Lu, David, Amanda, Mark, Matt, Chris, and Qiuhong about their careers and their work on retroviruses, hepatitis C virus, coronaviruses, paramyxoviruses, and environmental viruses. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Shan-Lu Liu, David Bisaro, Amanda Panfill, Mark Peeples, Matt Sullivan, Chris Walker, Qiuhong Wang Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode New virus requires international control (Nature) TIM-family proteins inhibit HIV-1 release (PNAS) Designing a HCV vaccine (Curr Op Virol...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 4, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 565: Karolinska virology
From the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Vincent speaks with Niklas Björkström, Ali Mirazimi, and Matti Sällberg about their work on the impact of chronic hepatitis C virus infection on NK cells, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus vaccines, and immunotherapy to block entry of hepatitis B and D viruses. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Niklas Björkström, Ali Mirazimi, and Matti Sällberg Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Karolinska Huddinge CCHV experimental vaccines (J Virol) Increased NK function after antiviral cessation (J Inf Dis) I...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - September 15, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 552: Delta and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat
Team TWiV reveals DNA polymerases that do not require a primer, and packaging of hepatitis delta virus by the envelope glycoproteins of diverse viruses. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Guest: Kiki Warren Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Bacteriophage DNA polymerase is primer-independent (PNAS) Primer-independent DNA polymerase from mobile elements (Cell Rep) Non-HBV helper viruses for HDV (Nat Comm) Waning of measles vaccine immunity (one, two, three) Letters read on TWiV 552 Timestamps by ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - June 16, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 546: Delta blues and chitlins
The un-encapsidated TWiV Humans discuss finding hepatitis D virus-related sequences in birds and snakes, and fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by a coronavirus of bat origin. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode European Virus Archive ASV early bird registrationends 15 May FDA approves Dengvaxia Divergent hepatitis D-like agentin birds(Viruses) Novel deltavirus in snakes(mBio) SADS-coronavirusin piglets (Nature) Hosts and sources of endemic human corona...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - May 5, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 513: Double-stranded in Belgium
From the 13th International Symposium on dsRNA viruses in Belgium, Vincent speaks with Harry Greenberg about his career and his work on rotaviruses, noroviruses, hepatitis B virus, and influenza virus. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guest: Harry Greenberg Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode 13th dsRNA Virus Symposium Hepatitisin blood donors (Lancet) Interferon treatmentof hepatitis B (NEJM) Mycoplasmamutantsin volunteers (PNAS) Norwalk virus infectionof chimpanzees (J Med Virol) Rotavirus rescueby reassortment (PNAS) Cold-adaptedinfluenza vaccine (Virol) ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - September 30, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
PodMed – Week of August 14, 2017
This week’s topics include complications of aortic valve surgery, effectiveness of nasal flu vaccination, testing for Epstein Barr virus and nasopharyngeal cancer, and hepatitis C treatment. Program notes: 0:31 How effective is the flu vaccine? 1:31 Reformulation of nasal type 2:27 Studies to find out why nasal isn’t working 3:12 Epstein Barr virus and nasopharyngeal […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - August 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Cancer Heart And Vascular Infectious diseases Influenza (flu) PodMed Surgery Source Type: podcasts
