TWiV reviews continuing expansion of poliovirus type 2, removal of influenza B/Yamagata from the vaccine, Nobel Prize for miRNAs, protective immune response with a adenovirus-associated virus vector expressing a computationally designed hemagglutinin, and viral gene drive during herpes simplex 1 infection in mice.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
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Continued expansion of type 2 poliovirus (reliefweb) 4:41
No more polio case map at polioeradication.org 9:35
B/Yamagata removed from flu vaccine (NPR) 10:50
Nobel Prizes for miRNA (ScienceInsider) 15:25
AAV-vectored influenza vaccine (J Virol) 21:45
Herpesvirus type 1 gene drive in mice (Nat Commun) 1:01:54
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Weekly Picks 1:32:38
Brianne – Virus and Vaccines Information Page from NIH All of Us Research Program
Kathy – For a Pivotal Vaccine: Trial, Error and Two Young Lives
Rich – October 17 2024 APOD: The Clipper and the Comet
Alan – Opening a deep-sea vent with a crowbar
Vincent – The expanding world of neuroscience
Listener Pick
Jason – Solar eclipse on Mars and Polaris Program and their Harmony of Resilience
Ryan – New York’s childhood vaccine coverage remains high
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I like Alan’s Coleman lantern which leads to thoughts about Joule Thieves or Thief, a thread on the net about pulsed power from “defunct” batteries to run led’s and even Compact Fluorescent Lights. One YouTube video shows use of a high voltage coil from a car, in a circuit that can be tuned, and several CFL’s being run from a used 1.5v battery, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zacait0vgCM , and here’s a small packaged version, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrHA8jefiYc&feature=related . I think the joule thief concept has gone viral. Some proponents are suggesting this is perpetual energy and even couple solar cells to joule-thief-lit led’s to charge the battery that’s powering the led…..! So, anyway, this concept apparently produces very long-running lights even for led devices that are useful in power-deprived areas, like New England – hah. We recently used our garden solar power led’s to save generator fuel in the evening during a power outage of several days! If you could run duplicate lighting circuits for led’s in your house, you could probably light the whole place for a week or two off a car’s 12v battery. And that leads me to suggest The Third Industrial Revolution book by Jeremy Rifkin as a science pick, or you can listen to an interview where he talks about lateral power production at http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail5059.html .
Jim
Smithfield, VA
Vaccines in older people: I’m 70 and the flu vaccine this year and last did not cause a local reaction as it always has in years past. Until this podcast I attributed the reduced reaction to a declining immune system, but it may instead be due to the lower concentration of virus as you guys stated. I think my wife may have seen a reduced reaction, also; I can’t give her age, but she’s 3 years younger!