TWiV reveals isolation from bats in Laos of a SARS-CoV-2 like virus with a spike protein that allows entry into human cells, and exploration of a herpesvirus vector for immunization of vampire bats against rabies virus.
TWiV 625: Fred Murphy, virologist for all seasons
- June 11, 2020
- Tagged as: ebolavirus, Fred Murphy, histopathology, Lassa virus, Marburg virus, rabies virus, viral, virology, virology history, virus, viruses
Vincent and Rich visit Fred Murphy to hear about his wide-ranging career in virology, spanning many institutions, involving dangerous viruses like rabies virus, Ebolavirus (he took that famous iconic image), Marburg virus, Lassa virus, coronaviruses, and later writing a history of the field.
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.
TWiV 461: Gotta trace them all!
- October 1, 2017
- Tagged as: circuit architecture, Cre recombinase, Flesch Reading Ease, FLIP recombinase, jargon, monosynaptic transmission, neural circuit, neural circuit tracing, neural tracing, neurobiology, neuroscience, New Dale-Chall Readability formula, proteasome, rabies virus, readability, science communication, scientific text, viral, virology, virus, viruses
The TWiVers discuss the declining readability of scientific texts, and review the use of self-inactivating rabies virus for tracing neural circuits.
Vincent and Dick continue Virology 101 with a discussion of how RNA viruses produce mRNA and replicate their genomes.
TWiV 38: Measles
- June 28, 2009
- Tagged as: baculovirus, glenn rall, H1N1, influenza, insect, koi herpesvirus, measles, pandemic, rabid, rabies, rabies virus, raccoon, swine flu, TWiV, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus
Vincent and Glenn Rall chat about koi herpesvirus, H1N1 influenza vaccine produced in insect cells, attack by a rabid raccoon, and measles.