TWiV #85 - Hepatitis C virus with Professor Michael Gale

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler The TWiXers discuss a study on vertical transmission of Zika virus by Aedes mosquitoes, and uncovering Earth's virome by mi...

4 Sep 20161h 56min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit From the twiVivants, follow up on FluMist and Zoster vaccines, Zika virus update, and isolation of a multicomponent animal vir...

28 Aug 20162h 6min

Donald "D.A." Henderson, a physician, educator, and epidemiologist who led the World Health Organization's campaign to eradicate smallpox, died at 87 years of age on Aug. 19, 2016. Vincent was fortuna...

23 Aug 201654min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit The TWiV team takes on an experimental plant-based poliovirus vaccine, contradictory findings on the efficacy of Flumist, waning protection confer...

21 Aug 20161h 36min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Polio returns to Nigeria, Zika virus spreads in Miami, and virus infection of plants attracts bumblebees for pollination, from...

14 Aug 20161h 57min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler Zika virus spreads in the USA, a Zika virus DNA vaccine goes into phase I trials, and how mosquito bites enhance virus repl...

7 Aug 20161h 58min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Guest: Harold Varmus The TWiV team is together in New York City for a conversation with Nobel Laureate Harold ...

31 Jul 20162h 19min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit The latest Zika virus news from the ConTWiVstadors, including a case of female to male transmission, risk of infection at the ...

24 Jul 20161h 43min