Hannah writes: Dear TWiV hosts, This email has nothing to do with virology, but I wanted to respond to Dickson’s pick from TWiV 447. I share his fascination with tiny creatures, and his pick immediately…
Jens writes: I may be wrong, but I think Occam’s Razor is not about preferring a simpler hypothesis over a more complex one in general (because Nature is complicated) but it is more about skipping…
Sarah writes: Hello TWiVsters, Long time listener first time emailer… In response to Bob’s letter on TWiV 437, about recent episodes being “boring” – I have to agree with the hosts, there is nothing boring…
The TWiV gurus describe how to use an orthogonal translation system to produce infectious but replication-incompetent influenza vaccines.
Jason writes: Greetings VRADK, I’ll leave it to you to figure out the greeting.. 🙂 I’m a bit behind on TWIV, but I just listened to episode 411 and heard about the final book contest….
Limerick/Haiku contest Giann writes: “Viruses” Non-living they are All obligate parasite, Intracellular Hi, I am Giann (read: Gi- as in Gibbon, and -iann as in Martian, it’s two syllables) from the Philippines. I decided to…
Richard writes: Simply said, TWiV is amazing. Thank you very much for the email! My colleagues, who are also TWIV listeners were both very excited and a little jealous that I was the lucky winner!…
Sharon and Scott join the TWiV team to talk about their work on dengue antibody-dependent enhancement of Zika virus infection, and identifying the virus in mosquitoes from Miami.
Iah writes: Hi folks! I’ah (pronounced: eye-ah) here! I must say I really enjoyed you all struggling with the pronunciation of my name. I realised my error in not providing a pronunciation note after I…
First email contest entries: Joanna writes: Hi Twiveroids, Thank you so much for the illustrated book of Viruses! I’m a PhD student at the MRC – Centre for Virus Research (CVR) in Glasgow and I’m…
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