A powerful radio burst from a magnetic star
Astronomers pin down the likely origins of mysterious fast radio bursts, and the latest on what the US election means for science.In this episode:00:46 The origins of mysterious fast radio burstsThe detection of a brief but enormously-powerful radio burst originating from within the Milky Way could help researchers answer one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries.Research article: Bochenek et al.; News: Astronomers spot first fast radio burst in the Milky Way07:59 CoronapodAt the start of the pandemic, there were fears that schools could become hotspots for infections. We discuss the evidence suggesting that this is unlikely ...
Source: Nature Podcast - November 4, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 671: Prizes, polio, and a pandemic puzzle
Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, then Amy joins us to discuss the 2020 Chemistry Nobel Prize for gene editing using CRISPR/Cas9, continuing circulation of poliovirus in Afghanistan, inborn errors of interferon in patients with severe COVID-19, and listener questions. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Guests: Daniel Griffin and Amy Rosenfeld Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASH guidelines on anticoagulants in COVID-19 patients (ASH) Followup of adults with noncritical COVID-19 (Clin Micr Inf) Tocilizumab in...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - October 11, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 598: Who was that masked man? Coronavirus update with Daniel Griffin
Daniel Griffin MD returns to TWiV from a hospital parking lot to provide updates on COVID-19 diagnostics, clinical picture, and therapeutics, followed by our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier,Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Guest: Daniel Griffin, MD Download TWiV 598 (70 MB .mp3, 115 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Restricted dispensing of Plaquenil in NY state Virology of COVID-19 patients (Nature) Susceptibility of domestic animals to SARS-CoV-2 (bioRxiv_ Cloth face ma...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 5, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 567: Outbreaks and a breakout
The TWiV team covers outbreaks of eastern equine encephalitis virus in the US and poliovirus in the Philippines, and explain how a chemokine induced by HIV-1 infection helps release more virus particles from cells. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Poliomyelitis returns to the Philippines (Mashable, virology blog) EEE in the USA (Am J Trop Med Hyg) Chemokine helps HIV-1 release (eLIFE) Image credit Letters read on TWiV 567 Timestamps by Jolene....
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - September 29, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 553: Polio with David Oshinsky
Vincent speaks with David Oshinsky, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Polio: An American Story, about the history of poliovirus vaccines. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guest: David Oshinsky Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees. Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv (Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition)
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - June 23, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
A polio outbreak threatens global eradication plans, and what happened to America ’s first dogs
Wild polio has been hunted to near extinction in a decades-old global eradication program. Now, a vaccine-derived outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is threatening to seriously extend the polio eradication endgame. Deputy News Editor Leslie Roberts joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the tough choices experts face in the fight against this disease in the DRC.
Sarah also talks with Online News Editor David Grimm about when dogs first came to the Americas. New DNA and archaeological evidence suggest these pups did not arise from North American wolves but came over thousands of years after the first pe...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Science Source Type: podcasts
A polio outbreak threatens global eradication plans, and what happened to America ’s first dogs
Wild polio has been hunted to near extinction in a decades-old global eradication program. Now, a vaccine-derived outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is threatening to seriously extend the polio eradication endgame. Deputy News Editor Leslie Roberts joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the tough choices experts face in the fight against this disease in the DRC.
Sarah also talks with Online News Editor David Grimm about when dogs first came to the Americas. New DNA and archaeological evidence suggest these pups did not arise from North American wolves but came over thousands of years after the first pe...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Science Source Type: podcasts
A polio outbreak threatens global eradication plans, and what happened to America ’s first dogs
Wild polio has been hunted to near extinction in a decades-old global eradication program. Now, a vaccine-derived outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is threatening to seriously extend the polio eradication endgame. Deputy News Editor Leslie Roberts joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the tough choices experts face in the fight against this disease in the DRC.
Sarah also talks with Online News Editor David Grimm about when dogs first came to the Americas. New DNA and archaeological evidence suggest these pups did not arise from North American wolves but came over thousands of years after the first p...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
A polio outbreak threatens global eradication plans, and what happened to America ’s first dogs
Wild polio has been hunted to near extinction in a decades-old global eradication program. Now, a vaccine-derived outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is threatening to seriously extend the polio eradication endgame. Deputy News Editor Leslie Roberts joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the tough choices experts face in the fight against this disease in the DRC. Sarah also talks with Online News Editor David Grimm about when dogs first came to the Americas. New DNA and archaeological evidence suggest these pups did not arise from North American wolves but came over thousands of years after the first peop...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - July 5, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Science Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 491: The Ileum and the Odyssey
The TWiVome deconstructs the evolutionary history of RNA viruses, and immune promortion of murine norovirus pathogenesis by replication in intestinal tuft cells. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASM Microbe 2018 Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference Faculty positions at Icahn School of Medicine Evolutionary historyof RNA viruses (Nature) The amphioxus song Norovirus tropism for tuft cells(Science) Letters readon TWiV 491 Weekly Science Picks Alan - Oligodendroglioma in song Kathy- Everything-repellent coating...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 29, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 459: Polio turns over a new leaf
The TWiV team reviews the first FDA approved gene therapy, accidental exposure to poliovirus type 2 in a manufacturing plant, and production of a candidate poliovirus vaccine in plants. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASM Conference on Viral Manipulation of Nuclear Processes ASM Public Outreach Fellowship Kymriah approved (PennMed) CAR T cells (NCBI) Cost of Kymriah (NYTimes) Accidental exposure to poliovirus type 2 (Eurosurveill) GAPIII (WHO) Poliovaccine candidate in plants (Nat Commun) Vertical vaccine farm (TWi...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - September 17, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 403: It's not easy being vaccine
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich ConditThe TWiV team takes on an experimental plant-based poliovirus vaccine, contradictory findings on the efficacy of Flumist, waning protection conferred by Zostavax, a new adjuvanted subunit zoster vaccine. Become a patron of TWiV!Links for this episodeTribunal orders release of PACE trial data (Valerie Eliot Smith)Our request for PACE trial data (virology blog)GM mosquito release on ballot (NPR)Florida Keys Mosquito Control District on TWiV #111Cold chain and virus free plant based polio vaccine (Plant Biotechnol J)Disappointing flu vaccine ef...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 21, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 348: Chicken shift
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit
Vincent and Rich discuss fruit fly viruses, one year without polio in Nigeria, and a permissive Marek's disease viral vaccine that allows transmission of virulent viruses.
Links for this episode
Virology tenure-track position at NCI (pdf)
ASM Agar Art Contest
Nigeria on brink of polio eradication (Nature)
Dengue in Africa (Tyler Sharp)
Permissive vaccines and virulence (PLoS Biol)
Marek's disease vaccines and virulence (Ed Yong)
Image credit
Letters read on TWiV 348
This episode is sponsored by ASM GAP
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Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 2, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Polio Vaccine Requirements for Travelers Abroad
Temporary guidance on polio vaccines for travelers abroad aims to prevent the further spread of poliovirus. (Source: Medscape Public Health & Prevention Podcast)
Source: Medscape Public Health & Prevention Podcast - December 15, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
