217: The chronicles of narnaviruses
The TWiM team explains an experimental vaccine to prevent E. coli urinary tract infections, and the remarkable three-way symbiosis of narnaviruses, bacteria, and fungi. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on Ap...
22 Touko 202051min
216: It starts with a cough
The TWiM team discuses saliva as more sensitive for SARS-CoV-2 detection in COVID-19 patients than nasopharyngeal swab and how Mycobacterium tuberculosis sulfolipid-1 activates nociceptive neurons and...
1 Touko 20201h 3min
215: Cultural transformation and pathogen emergence
A ferret model for infection by SARS-CoV-2, and how Neolithization lead to emergence of a human bacterial pathogen. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson and Michael Schmidt Lin...
17 Huhti 202056min
214: Masterful subversion
Vincent, Elio and Michael reveal the ASM COVID-19 summit, and how Salmonella injects a protein into the cell to drive suppression of the immune response. ASM COVID-19 Summit Value of SARS-CoV-2 diag...
3 Huhti 202058min
213: Fugitive emissions
Vincent, Elio and Michael discuss the stability of human coronaviruses on surfaces and in aerosols, and peptidoglycan production by a mosaic consisting of a bacterium within a bacterium within an inse...
20 Maalis 20201h 1min
212: A coronavirus outbreak and IRF4 deficiency in Whipple's disease
The TWiM team reviews the coronavirus outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, and the finding that an IRF deficiency underlies Whipple's disease. 2019-nCoV case tracking (JHU) Clinical features of inf...
6 Helmi 202055min
211: Bacteria, colon cancer and fire blight
The Fellowship of the TWiM reveal that colorectal cancer-associated microbiota are associated with higher numbers of methylated genes in colonic mucosa, and identification of metabolites needed by the...
9 Tammi 20201h 18min
210: The Waze of microbes
The Microbial Comrades present the oldest osteosynthesis in history, and how a small molecule produced by stressed bacteria is a warning signal that repels healthy populations to promote their surviva...
5 Joulu 20191h 16min
