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Joseph writes: Greetings again TWIV docs,   As someone who worked on identifying physiologically relevant CD8+ T cell epitopes for potential dengue vaccines, thanks for covering the latest on Dengvaxia. The background scuttlebutt in our…

Ben Padman writes: Hi there, I heard your questions about the CLEM (Correlative Light Electron Microscopy) experiment from the transcytosis paper and wanted to clear up a few things: 1) I acquired the optical and…

Jess writes: Hello TWiV Team, As always, appreciate the show. Especially ep. 461 since so much of my time involves reviews of similar experiments! Thank you for acknowledging the papers are not easy to decipher!…

Xandur writes: Hello TWiV-team, I enjoyed the latest episode 459 especially the polio part. I’ve been working with this vaccine and developing new ones. As with aircraft crashes there is not a single thing going…

Jane Flint writes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_map With respect to schematic subway maps (TWiV 450), goes back to 1930’s in London. Great discussion with Ben, Jane Sasha Trubetskoy writes: Hi guys, thanks for sharing my Roman subway map….

Junio writes: Re: coccinellae in Japanese These colorful round small beetles are collectively called Tentou-Mushi in Japanese. “Mushi” is a generic term for insects. “Tentou” is the Sun-God (you can call the Sun “O-Tentou-Sama”). Wikipedia says they…

Anthony writes: The Royal Society added 2 new photos. 12 mins · British physician Edward Jenner FRS, the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine, was born #onthisday in 1749. (this was 17 May)…

Jean-Michel Claverie writes: Dear Vincent: Roaming on the net, we discovered yesterday that you dedicated a whole episode of TWiV (440) to Noumeavirus. Thanks for contributing to our fame ! 🙂 Even though you made…

Maureen writes: Hi my instructors in science. I just listened to TWIV 438 and have to say I agree with Bob’s letter. I have been meaning to write a similar letter asking that parts of…