TWiP 101: Is it round or is it flat?
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin The doctors TWiP solve the case of the Woman with White Worms, and explain the role of a secreted growth factor from a carcinogenic pa...
23 Jan 20161h 51min
TWiP 100: Driving past a milestone
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin The TWiP trifecta solves the case of the Woman from Bolivia with Belly Pain, and discuss a method for population modification of malar...
9 Jan 20161h 53min
TWiP 99: You get your polar bear from your nana
The TWiP trifecta solves the case of the Professor Who Went to Brazil, and discuss an amazing case of a tapeworm that turned into a tumor in an AIDS patient. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despomm...
5 Dec 20151h 39min
TWiP 98: Resistance is not futile
The TWiP-lets reveal Balamuthia infection in the Children from Peru, and discuss resistance to pyrethroids revealed by RNA sequencing of Anopheles mosquitoes. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despom...
31 Okt 20151h 37min
TWiP 97: The seven year itch
The paratenic hosts reveal a case of scabies in the Traveling Salesman, and discuss a role for natural antibody in protection from infection with Plasmodium. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despomm...
17 Okt 20151h 26min
TWiP 96: Salivary pharmacopeia
The TWiPanosomes solve the case about the Young Woman who Went to Belize, and relate how sandfly saliva skews the immune response and increases risk of cutaneous leishmaniasis. Hosts: Vincent Racaniel...
3 Okt 20151h 43min
TWiP 95: Arsenic and Leishmania
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve the case about the 33 year old Chinese male with watery diarrhea, and discuss whether arsenic in drinking water might lead to treatment failures for Leishmania infec...
19 Sep 20151h 44min
TWiP 94: Loa hanging fruit
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve the case about the man from El Salvador, discuss the use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors to treat onchocerciasis and filariasis. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Des...
5 Sep 20151h 41min
