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TWiV 813: COVID-19 at the European Society for Clinical Virology

  • October 7, 2021
  • Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, immunity, pandemic, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus, viruses

From the 2021 online meeting of the European Society for Clinical Virology, Vincent speaks with meeting speakers on COVID-19 vaccines, immunity, how countries responded to the pandemic, and how to prepare for the next one.

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TWiV 664: TWiV is for the dogs

  • September 17, 2020
  • Tagged as: common cold, coronavirus, COVID-19, D614G, immunity, mutation, pandemic, reinfection, SARS-CoV-2, viral, virology, virus, viruses

On this mid-week edition, does it matter that SARS-CoV-2 is mutating, seasonal coronavirus immunity is short-lived, another bogus claim that the virus was produced in a laboratory (it came from Nature), and answers to listener questions.

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TWiV 661: SWAG with Ralph Baric

  • September 10, 2020
  • Tagged as: antiviral drug, COVID-19, diagnostic test, immunity, lateral flow assay, monoclonal antibody, pandemic, reinfection, SARS-CoV-2, transverse myelitis, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Ralph Baric returns to TWiV to provide an update on the COVID-19 resurgence in the US, monoclonal antibodies, antiviral drugs, vaccines, immunity and reinfection, reopening schools, and what will happen this fall.

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TWiV 659: Sloppy coronavirus immunity with Christian Drosten

  • September 3, 2020
  • Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, epidemiology, face mask, immunity, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, shedding, testing, transmission, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Christian Drosten returns to TWiV to provide an update on the COVID-19 situation in Germany, and general thoughts on testing, immunity, vaccines, therapeutics, epidemiology, reopening schools, and what will happen this fall.

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TWiV 641: COVID-19 with Dr. Anthony Fauci

  • July 17, 2020
  • Tagged as: COVID-19, immunity, pandemic, pathogenesis, SARS-CoV-2, transmission, Vaccines, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Dr. Anthony Fauci joins TWiV to discuss SARS-CoV-2 transmission, testing, immunity, pathogenesis, vaccines, and preparedness.

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TWiV 488: Who nose if it will work in humans

  • April 8, 2018
  • Tagged as: encephalitis, epidemiology, immunity, mumps, mumps outbreaks, nasal spray, olfactory mucosa, rabies virus, siRNA, vaccine efficacy, vaccine waning, viral, virology, virus, viruses, west nile virus

The TWiV team reveals that recent mumps virus outbreaks in the US are due to waning vaccine efficacy, and an intranasally delivered small interfering RNA that controls West Nile infection in the brain.

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TWiV 482: Don’t EVEome without antibody expressed

  • February 25, 2018
  • Tagged as: asymptomatic, ebolavirus, EBOV, ELISA, endogenous viral element, EVEome, immunity, mosquito, piRNA, piwi, piwi-interacting RNA, serology, siRNA, transmission, viral, virology, virus, viruses

The TWiV Masters discuss serologic evidence of Ebolavirus infection in a population with no outbreaks, and the set of endogenous viral elements in the mosquito genome.

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TWiV 369: Camel runny noses and other JNK

  • December 27, 2015
  • Tagged as: camel, chromatin, coronavirus, herpes simplex virus, herpesvirus, histone, immunity, JNK, MERS, MERS-CoV, methyl/phospho switch, methylation, neuronal stress, phosphorylation, reactivation, shedding, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus, viruses
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A swarm of virologists discusses testing of a MERS coronavirus vaccine for camels, and how a neuronal stress pathway reactivates herpes simplex virus.

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TWiV 268: Transmission is inevitable

  • January 19, 2014
  • Tagged as: aphid, bat, cauliflower mosaic virus, caulimovirus, Coursera, cytoskeleton, flight, fomite, genome, immunity, pararetrovirus, physician office, transmission, vector, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Alan, Kathy, and Ashlee discuss fomites in physicians offices, plant virus factories involved in aphid transmission, and clues from the bat genome about flight and immunity.

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TWiV 138: RISCy business with Raul Andino

  • June 19, 2011
  • Tagged as: argonaute, dicer, drosophila, fly, immunity, innate immunity, raul andino, risc, RNA interference, siRNA, viral, virology, virus

Vincent meets up with Raul Andino in San Francisco to discuss the RNAi-based antiviral defense system of Drosophila, the fruit fly, and how it is antagonized by viruses.

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