This Week in Virology

Scott Hensley joins the TWiVites to review the current influenza season and presence of the virus in exhaled breath of symptomatic cases. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich...

11 Feb 20181h 53min

The TWiVome explores induction of antiviral responses by repeating patterns of capsids, and a fungus in the mosquito gut that aids dengue virus replication. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommi...

4 Feb 20181h 50min

The TWiV team explains how infectious horsepox virus - likely the ancestor of smallpox vaccines - was recovered from chemically synthesized DNA fragments. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier...

28 Jan 20181h 41min

The TWiVodrome explains how a gag-like protein from a retrotransposon forms virus-like particles that carry mRNA  within vesicles across the synapse. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Ala...

20 Jan 20181h 43min

Nels joins the TWiV team to talk about his work on genomic accordions in vaccinia virus, hepatitis B virus in a 439 year old mummy, and viral induction of energy synthesis by a long noncoding RNA. Hos...

14 Jan 20181h 44min

In the first episode for 2018, the TWiV team reviews the amazing virology stories of 2017. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV! Links f...

7 Jan 20181h 50min

The TWiVanguardians take on Bodo saltans virus, a leviathan which infects an abundant flagellated eukaryote in Earth's waters. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spind...

31 Dec 20171h 43min

The Fellowship of the Virus discuss enhancement of dengue disease in humans: the contribution of antibody concentration and increased binding to Fc receptors. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despom...

24 Dec 20171h 49min