TWiV 763: Cap-snatch fever
TWiV explains how cap-snatching, the priming of viral mRNA synthesis with fragments of host mRNAs, can lead to the synthesis of novel viral proteins. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy ...
3 Jun 20211h 49min
TWiV 762: SARS-CoV-2 origins with Robert Garry
Robert Garry joins TWiV to explain how the molecular biology of SARS-CoV-2 shows that it came from Nature and not a lab, including the receptor binding domain, the furin cleavage site, and the two lin...
30 Mai 20211h 53min
TWiV 761: COVID-19 clinical update #64 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #64, Daniel Griffin covers new guidance from NY on day camps, mitigation and infection rates in schools, testing to sustain in person instruction, Moderna mRNA vaccine high...
29 Mai 202143min
TWiV 760: SARS-CoV-2 origins with Peter Daszak, Thea Kølsen Fischer, Marion Koopmans
Peter Daszak, Thea Kølsen Fischer, and Marion Koopmans, members of the WHO team investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2 join TWiV to explain the work done by the committee during phase one, their conc...
27 Mai 20211h 27min
TWiV 759: Pork dogs and an evolutionary pickle
TWiV examines spillovers of porcine and canine coronaviruses into humans in Haiti and Malaysia, and how antigenic evolution of measles virus is constrained by multiple co-dominant epitopes on the vira...
23 Mai 20212h 7min
TWiV 758: COVID-19 clinical update #63 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #63, Daniel Griffin reviews cases at child care facilities, estimates of mRNA vaccine effectiveness, risk of reinfection in university students, enhanced antibody generatio...
22 Mai 202144min
TWiV 757: Supershedders and super vaccines
TWiV reveals that 2% of SARS-CoV-2−positive individuals carry 90% of the virus circulating in a college campus, and a nanoparticle vaccine that induces cross-reactive immunity against multiple pandemi...
20 Mai 20212h 1min
TWiV 756: Precluding problematic polio prophylaxis
TWiV returns to the 2012 brouhaha over transmission experiments with avian H5N1 influenza virus, re-examines the claim of SARS-CoV-2 RNA integration into human DNA, and reviews the engineering and tes...
16 Mai 20212h 13min
