This Week in Virology
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This Week in Virology
TWiV is a weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Brought to you by four university professors and a science writer.
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TWiV 1351: Ebola Virus Brains and Contagious Catfish Cancers
TWiV describes a human cerebral organoid model for Ebola virus persistence, and brown bullhead catfish melanoma, a novel transmissible cancer.
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TWiV 1350: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are perplexed by the state of global public health as malaria, cholera and other...
TWiV 1349: Smallpox and mummies
TWiV explains how liquid–liquid phase separation and a phage-encoded inhibitor cooperatively drive transcriptional transition during phage SPO1 infect...
TWiV 1348: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are troubled by the latest executive order changing routine childhood vaccine rec...
TWiV 1347: No Short Answers for Long COVID
TWiV explains research showing that Long COVID is associated with reactivation of numerous chronic viruses, including herpesviruses and anelloviruses,...
TWiV 1346: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are distressed by Erica Schwartz’ confirmation as CDC director, the GAO proposed...
TWiV 1345: Rocky Mountain Virology High
TWiV travels to Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, where he speaks with Angela Bosco-Lauth, Rebekah Kading, and Mark Stenglein about their care...
TWiV 1344: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the numerous attempts by states to roll back vaccine laws, the recent sur...
TWiV 1341: Phage breaks and COVID origins
TWiV explains research that reveals dual activity of a phage-encoded lysin that modulates infection dynamics in a mycobacteriophage, and refutes a pro...
TWiV 1339: Ebola up close with Tom Ksiazek
Tom Ksiazek, a world-renowned virus expert with 40 years of experience on the front lines of some of the worst outbreaks the world has ever seen, join...
TWiV 1338: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are dismayed over the military deaths due to the voluntary influenza vaccination...
TWiV 1337: The whitefly and the Red Queen
TWiV explains research that reveals an an alternative evolutionary path of antiviral signalling in a sea anemone, and how a bacterial symbiont and a p...
TWiV 1336: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello lament about the new ACIP charter, how administration of the HPV vaccine has elim...
TWiV Special: Albert Sabin with Karen Torghele
Vincent speaks with Karen Torghele about her recently published biography of polio vaccine pioneer Albert Sabin, the first ever written.
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TWiV 1334: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the global economic burden of infectious disease, restoring trust in vacc...
TWiV 1334: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the global economic burden of infectious disease, restoring trust in vacc...
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TWiV Special: Ebola virus and Andes virus with John Dye
Vincent travels to ASM Microbe in Washington DC to speak with John Dye of the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases abo...
TWiV 1331: A drug for cervical cancer
TWiV explains research showing that dairy cows are infected with low doses of influenza A(H5N1) and do not transmit efficiently to other animals, and...
TWiV 1329: How HIV-1 goes nuclear
TWiV explains research showing limited transmission of cervid prions to nonhuman primates, and the finding that cone-shaped HIV-1 capsids are transpor...
TWiV 1328: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello opine on the recent executive order on the routine childhood vaccination schedule...
TWiV 1327: Influenza viruses in the MIST
TWiV explains research on human influenza virus transmission that reveals heterogeneous expulsion of infectious virus into air, and how gut bacterioph...
TWiV 1324: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss withdrawal of the ACIP charter published in April 2026, the first council...
TWiV 1323: One influenza infection, two patients
TWiV explains mRNA delivery of mosaic-8 pan-sarbecovirus RBD vaccines, and how toll-like receptor 7 alters the maternal immune landscape during influe...
TWiV 1321: Phage cross talk and cross reactions
TWiV explains how cross-reactive anti-prophage antibodies and bacterial heteroresistance is implicated in phage therapeutic failure, and how phages co...
TWiV 1320: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the outbreak of Hantavirus on a cruise ship and its potential for person-per...
TWiV 1319: An earful of SARS-CoV-2
TWiV explains the emergence of vaccine-derived poliovirus strains from the novel oral polio vaccine in the Central African Republic, and the infection...
TWiV 1318: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello note the uncertain future of the National Science Foundation amid shifting U.S. fund...
TWiV 1317: Dead shrimp walking
TWiV explains a study showing that viral DNA load in blood and saliva varied markedly with age, time of day season, sex, and depended on dozens of gen...
TWiV 1316: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are distressed by RFK Jr’s testimony in front of Congress, surges in rotavirus infec...
TWiV 1315: Jabs for bats
TWiV explains a study showing that the wildlife trade, including live-animal markets, is a major driver of animal-to-human pathogen transmission, and...
TWiV 1314: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are dismayed but not surprised by poll results suggesting most Americans doubt vacci...
TWiV 1313: Maybe they're all dementia vaccines
TWiV reviews evidence that influenza standard and high-dose vaccines reduce risk of Alzheimer’s dementia, and spread of deltaviruses by a viral Trojan...
TWiV 1312: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are aghast at the CDC’s decision to no longer test for rabies and mpox and the revis...
TWiV 1311: Jayhawks go viral
Vincent visits the University of Kansas and speaks with Tony Fehr, Robin Orozco, Juergen Richt and Rob Unckless about their careers and the research o...
TWiV 1310: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello cover if the “five-second” rule for things that fall on the floor apply to surgical...
TWiV 1309: Maybe they're all cancer vaccines
TWiV explains why human papillomavirus vaccine-induced immunity can block infection, unlike all other vaccines, and how respiratory viral infections s...
TWiV 1308: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello talk about the resignation of a member of the advisory committee for immunization pr...
TWiV 1307: My heart breaks for flu
TWiV reviews the structural basis for Rep-mediated adeno-associated virus DNA genome packaging, how influenza virus-infected myeloid cells travel to t...
TWiV 1306: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello chat about death of water fowl on Long Island, ‘renaming’ of the FDA adverse event m...
TWiV 1305: Lab leak idea called on the carpet
TWiV introduces sunshine virus of carpet pythons and its effect snakes after experimental infection, and development of a new tool to distinguish betw...