Daniel Griffin provides a clinical update on COVID-19, then Sabra Klein joins us to discuss the effect of sex, gender, and age on viral infectious disease, including COVID-19.
TWiV 441: Don’t ChrY for me influenza
- May 14, 2017
- Tagged as: consomic, female, gamma delta T cells, immunopathology, influenza, male, sex, susceptibility, testosterone, viral, virology, virus, viruses, Y chromosome
The Beacons of Viral Education (aka the TWiVoners) reveal a cost of being a male mouse – the Y chromosome regulates their susceptibility to influenza virus infection.
The TWiVites discuss Zika virus seroprevalence in wild monkeys, Zika virus mRNA vaccines, and a gamete fusion protein inherited from viruses.