TWiV 1171: The born immunity

TWiV reviews susceptibility to vaccine-preventable infections in asylum seekers, the economic power of vaccines, French university tries to bury its investigation of a faculty member’s ethical lapses, transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in New Zealand before and after COVID-19, and a germ line encoded antibody that recognizes a broad array of enveloped viruses.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

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• Why RFK Jr is not suitable for HHS (YouTube) 3:34
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• ASV 2025 11:33
• Susceptibility to infections in asylum seekers (NEJM) 12:41
• RSV hospitalization in adults (JAMA Net Open) 14:34
• Ethics failings at French university (Science) 15:18
• RSV transmission in New Zealand (Nat Commun) 18:58
• Glycan reactive IgM binds multiple viruses (SciImmunol) 40:11
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Weekly Picks 1:29:20

Brianne – Publication of Updated Human Cell Atlas
Rich – Astroscale
Alan – E3 ubiquitin ligase game, and an article about its origin
Vincent – In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain

Listener Pick

Ryan – A Dangerous Moment

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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