TWiV 691: SciArt with Laura Splan
SciArtist Laura Splan joins TWiV to reveal her transdisciplinary work that intersects science, technology, design and culture, then we discuss an inverse correlation between mumps virus antibodies ind...
10 Dec 20202h 11min
TWiV 690: This is your brain on SARS-CoV-2
TWiV reviews the difficulties in predicting species susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection by only examining the ACE2 protein, and the olfactory mucosa as a portal of entry into the central nervous sy...
6 Dec 20201h 59min
TWiV 689: COVID-19 clinical update #39 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Daniel Griffin provides his weekly clinical report on COVID-19, including analysis of vitamin D levels in patients, information on Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, distribution plans suggested by ACIP, an...
5 Dec 202037min
TWiV 688: We put COVID-19 papers through a sieve
TWiV 688: We put COVID-19 papers through a sieve December 2, 2020 On this episode, UK grants EUA for Pfizer vaccine, advice for CDC on who to immunize first, news from Das Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 pro...
3 Dec 20201h 50min
TWiV 687: Peter Hotez sticks to the vax
Peter Hotez joins TWiV to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, including why it went out of control in the US, the hijacking of public health practices by anti-science extremist groups, prospects for contro...
29 Nov 20202h 18min
TWiV 686: COVID-19 clinical update #38 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Daniel Griffin provides his weekly clinical report on COVID-19, including new post-exposure guidelines from CDC, clinical trials of Remdesivir and convalescent plasma, FDA EUA for baricitinib and Rege...
28 Nov 202034min
TWiV 685: Pandemicky
The TWiVers analyze efficacy of the AstraZeneca/Oxford adenovirus vectored vaccine, SARS-CoV-2 did not infect miners who became ill 8 years ago after cleaning bat guano from a cave in Yunnan Province,...
26 Nov 20201h 50min
TWiV 684: Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 immune memory
Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, and Shane Crotty explains a study of antibodies, B cells and T cells in patients which suggests that immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2 might be ...
22 Nov 20203h 4min
