TWiV discusses the recent decision by an FDA advisory committee to update COVID vaccines for the fall, the monkeypox virus outbreak, and the finding that enteric viruses infect the salivary glands and are transmitted through saliva.
TWiV 647: Testing is our way out of this crisis
- July 30, 2020
- Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, diagnostic testing, hydroxychloroquine, LAMP, pandemic, PCR, saliva, SARS-CoV-2, viral, virology, virus, viruses
In this mid-week TWiV, children under 10 do transmit SARS-CoV-2, why hydroxychloroquine does not work for treating COVID-19, scale-up of diagnostic testing, explanation of LAMP testing, and listener questions.
Team TWiV cover the discovery of another giant virus from 30,000 year old Siberian permafrost, and how viral aggregation accelerates the production of new infectious viruses and increases fitness, demonstrating an Allee effect.
The TWiV scientists reveal that mosquitoes transmit different West Nile virus populations with each blood meal, only to have the diversity purged in a bird host.
TWiV 391: Whiter reefs, fresh breath
- May 29, 2016
- Tagged as: coral reef, holobiont, microbiome, mouth, oral cavity, saliva, viral, virology, virome, virus, viruses
If you have always wanted to know what coral reefs and the human oral cavity have in common, listen as guests David Pride and Forest Rohwer talk about their work on the microbiomes and viromes of these two environments, and you’ll also understand why mucus is cool.
TWiV 383: A zillion Zika papers and a Brazilian
- April 3, 2016
- Tagged as: Aedes agepytii, Aedes albopictus, cryoEM, fetus, microcephaly, mosquito, mouse model, saliva, sexual transmission, urine, viral, virology, virus, viruses, Zika, Zika virus
Esper and the Merry TWiXters analyze the latest data on Zika virus and microcephaly in Brazil, and discuss publications on a mouse model for disease, infection of a fetus, mosquito vector competence, and the cryo-EM structure of the virus particle.