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TWiV 779: Evolving boosterism

July 11, 2021
Tagged as: booster, coronavirus, COVID-19, evolution, genome packaging, nucleocapsid, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, Vaccine, variant of concern, viral, virology, virus, viruses

TWiV reviews evidence that COVID-19 mRNA vaccination of both uninfected and previously infected persons elicits cross-variant neutralizing antibodies, and directed evolution of a bacterial protein to form a virus-like capsid that specifically packages its encoding mRNA.

TWiV 518: Hershey’s viruses

November 4, 2018
Tagged as: ESCRT pathway, exosome, Gag protein, genome packaging, HCMV, hiv-1, human cytomegalovirus, late domain, nuclear experience, retrovirus, rous sarcoma virus, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Vincent travels to Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA to speak with Nick and Leslie about their careers and their work on human cytomegalovirus and retroviruses.

The TWiVeroos deliver the weekly Zika Report, then talk about a cryoEM structure of a plant virus that reveals how the RNA genome is packaged in the capsid, and MIMIVIRE, a CRISPR-like defense system in giant eukaryotic viruses.

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TWiV 158: Wolverines go viral

November 20, 2011
Tagged as: genome dimerization, genome packaging, hiv, mouse adenovirus, retrovirus, viral, virology, virus

Vincent and Rich visit the Microbiology and Immunology Department at the University of Michigan Medical School, and speak with Alice and Kathy about their work on HIV genome dimerization, and packaging and pathogenesis of mouse adenovirus.

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TWiV 779: Evolving boosterism

TWiV 518: Hershey’s viruses

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TWiV 158: Wolverines go viral

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