TWiV 1005: COVID T vax and a virus from the b...

TWiV explains research which shows that Per os infectivity factors are essential for bracovirus infection and wasp parasitism, and that periodic shifts in viral load increase risk of Hendra virus spillover from Pteropus bats. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spin ...  Show more

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello explore the source/not source of the national cyclospora outbreak, trust in the FDA to correctly identify the source, new screwworm, Legionnaires and cyclosporasis cases, the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and deve ...  Show more

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Josef Sabo Vincent, Dickson, and Josef discuss tetraspanins on the surface of schistosomes as vaccine candidates and immune evasion proteins. Links for this episode: S. japonicum tetraspanin-2 as a vaccine target (PLoS NTP) Prote ...  Show more

Nels and Vincent review the identification of a novel virus associated with the pathogen Plasmodium knowlsei and which is part part of a diverse and unclassified viral taxon. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of T ...  Show more

TWiV explains studies showing that SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines improve life span of cancer patients on checkpoint immunotherapy, and broad immunity conferred by a vaccine central in A(H5) influenza antigenic space.

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

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello< ...