TWiV 822: Viking variola variants

TWiV reviews lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus seroprevalence among urban pregnant women and newborns in Philadelphia, and a functional translation initiation complex encoded in the genome of giant viruses that drives synthesis of viral structural proteins. Hosts: Vincent Racani ...  Show more

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss several states and the governor of Pennsylvania suing HHS over changes in the childhood vaccination schedule, the vaccine derived type 2 poliovirus outbreak in Pakistan and implications for the global withd ...  Show more

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 s ...  Show more

TWiV reviews evidence that symptomatic adenovirus infection leads to thrombocytopenia, thrombosis, and production of anti-platelet factor 4 antibodies similar to the rare disorder seen after immunization with adenoviral vectored COVID-19 vaccines, and a monoclonal antibody isolat ...  Show more

Nels and Vincent explain how deep genomics of macroalgae illuminate multiple paths to aquatic, photosynthetic multicellularity.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello< ...

Die Langlebigkeit mancher Tierarten gibt Rätsel auf. Etwa der Pfeilschwanzkrebs: Er überlebte mehr als 300 Millionen Jahre, ohne sich anzupassen. Altertümliche Lebensformen sind manchmal Überlebenskünstler. (BR 2015) Autorin: Prisca Straub Credits Autor/in dieser Folge: Prisca St ...  Show more