The TWiVerers continue their coverage of the new coronavirus outbreak in China, as the number of cases increase dramatically and the virus begins person-to-person transmission in other countries.
Chris writes: Hello Twivers, It was a beautiful sunny and windy 60F here today in stony brook Long island. I typically only write in for TWIP (I’m the one who likes to send pictures and…
The TWiVers discuss the spread of African swine fever virus and its threat to pig farming, and the zoonotic potential of peste des petits ruminants virus.
Islam writes: Dear Vincent, Near the end of TWiV 517, there was a mention of HSV-1 and Alzheimer’s (AD). You expressed a disagreement with a news headline referring to a mounting evidence for an HSV-1…
Jay writes: TWIVumvirate, While listening to TWIV 512, I was inspired to do a search on plant bioinformatics, and came upon the best URL. Ever. Lawrence-Dill Plant Informatics and Computation Lab @Iowa State https://dill-picl.org/ Also,…
Clarissa writes: Dear Twiv team, Thanks for the discussion on the challenges of polio eradication. It was great! Regarding the Brazilian Vaccination program, you’re right! it’s great, an outstanding public health action that we have…
Neeraj writes: Hi folks, Listening to the latest TWiV, I just wanted to send the following link your way. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/why-word-vaccine-probably-all-wrong?utm_campaign=news_daily_2017-10-11&et_rid=101614179&et_cid=1598571 Maybe the word vaccine does need to be updated . Thanks for the discussion. Best,…
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…
Anthony writes: When I was looking for Fenner’s papers Online, I could not find any. As luck would have it, someone soon after handed me a copy of the 1957 – 1958 Harvey lectures —…
Kathy writes: Another paper demonstrating that having females as role models can aid in retention is this one from 2017: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=28533360 Female peer mentors early in college increase women’s positive academic experiences and retention in…
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