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TWiV 757: Supershedders and super vaccines

  • May 20, 2021
  • Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, nanoparticle, pandemic, receptor binding domain, RT-PCR, SARS-CoV-2, shedding, sortases, superspreader, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus, viruses

TWiV reveals that 2% of SARS-CoV-2−positive individuals carry 90% of the virus circulating in a college campus, and a nanoparticle vaccine that induces cross-reactive immunity against multiple pandemic and pre-emergent coronaviruses.

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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 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 353: STING and the antiviral police

  • September 6, 2015
  • Tagged as: agammaglobulinemia, cGAMP, cGAS, IFN, innate immunity, interferon, packaging, poliovirus, Sabin vaccine, shedding, STING, vaccine derived poliovirus, VDPV, viral, virology, virus, virus particle

The TWiVniacs discuss twenty-eight years of poliovirus shedding by an immunodeficient patient, and packaging of the innate cytoplasmic signaling molecule cyclic GMP-AMP in virus particles.

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