Tag: pandemic

Episode

TWiEVO 64: Seeing the lineages for the variants

January 22, 2021
Tagged as: antibody, coronavirus, COVID-19, evolution, immune response, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, transmission, virus, viruses

Nels and Vincent consider evolution of antibody immunity to SARS-CoV-2, and update the situation on novel virus variants of concern with potentially altered fitness and reactivity with antibodies.

Episode

TWiEVO 63: Year of the coronavirus

December 31, 2020
Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, evolution, natural selection, pandemic, phylogenomics, SARS-CoV-2, South African variant, UK variant, virology, virus, viruses

Nels and Vincent wrap up 2020 with a discussion of novel variants of SARS-CoV-2 that have emerged in the United Kingdom and South Africa, how to interpret the rapidly emerging genome sequence data and what to look for in the coming weeks as these variants spread across the globe.

Episode

TWiEVO 59: The hypothesis giving tree

August 28, 2020
Tagged as: amoeba, COVID-19, evolution, giant virus, mutation, natural selection, ORFan, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2

Nels and Vincent answer listener questions and discuss a newly discovered virus of amoeba with a nearly complete ORFan genome: none of the proteins encoded in the viral genome look like any other proteins.

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