TWiV discusses the rising autism rate among children, RFK Jr.’s claim that autism ‘destroys lives’, receptor binding specificity of a bovine H5N1 influenza virus, and improved dengue subunit vaccine modified to form E protein dimers.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode
- Support science education at MicrobeTV 1:45
- ASV 2025 2:07
- Rising autism rate among children (MMWR) 3:08
- RFK Jr. claims autism ‘destroys lives‘ (NY Times) 7:01
- Receptor binding specificity of bovine H5N1 virus (Nature) 11:33, 17:17
- Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human receptors (Nature) 11:33, 25:40
- AJ Eisfeld et al reply (Nature) 13:33, 31:27
- Mootant influenza H5N1 virus (TWiV 1131) 11:33
- Improved dengue 2 subunit vaccine (J Virol) 33:36
- Letters read on TWiV 1211 1:07:26
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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