TWiV 747: COVID-19 clinical update #59 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Daniel Griffin discusses a front-line health care worker survey, pre-exposure seropositivity and subsequent infection in healthy young adults, fitted filtration efficiency of double masking, BinaxNow ...
24 Apr 202143min
TWiV 746: Encephalitis viruses dine on caveolae
Team TWiV explains how alphaviruses like Western equine encephalitis virus cross into the brain from capillaries by caveolin-mediated transcytosis, and reveal scientists' incentives and attitudes towa...
22 Apr 20211h 52min
TWiV 745: Gorilla COVID with Nadine Lamberski
Nadine Lamberski joins TWiV to discuss an outbreak of COVID-19 among gorillas at the San Diego Zoo, and the use of a spike protein-based vaccine to immunize the animals. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Ala...
18 Apr 20211h 48min
TWiV 744: COVID-19 clinical update #58 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #58, Daniel Griffin provides the latest update on the J&J vaccine pause, healthcare worker deaths, children and COVID, physical inactivity associated with higher risk, usin...
17 Apr 202145min
TWiV 743: Shape-shifting viruses
The TWiVsters explain how the shape of pleomorphic virus particles – spherical or filamentous – determines the probability of virus attachment and fusion, and resistance to selective pressure such as ...
15 Apr 20211h 54min
TWiV 742: De-fusing COVID-19
TWiV reviews a drug screen for inhibitors of syncytium formation, the fusing of cells caused by SARS-CoV-2, which reveals that the process is regulated by a calcium-activated ion channel and scramblas...
11 Apr 20211h 47min
TWiV 741: COVID-19 clinical update #57 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #57, Daniel Griffin covers children and MIS-C, school opening plans, transmission event with masks, fomite transmission, diagnostic test performance, AZ vaccine and blood c...
10 Apr 202143min
TWiV 740: Complementation will get you everywhere
The Guardians of the TWiV-o-verse discuss the process of codon deoptimization for the production of experimental infectious attenuated viral vaccines, and how a respiratory syncytial virus with 619 ba...
8 Apr 20211h 36min
