Podcast Episodes

Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

Episode 1358

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are angered by the continuous reporting of measles deaths in the US and around t…

12 hours ago

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Furin, Naturally with Paul Bieinasz

Episode 1357

Paul Bieniasz joins TWiV to discuss his lab's discovery that the coronavirus nuclease NSP15 cuts viral RNA into oligonucleotides that are reinserted …

6 days, 14 hours ago

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Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

Episode 1356

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello delve into dengue virus infections in Florida, recent human rabies infections in…

1 week ago

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Four billion years of AI training data

Episode 1355

TWiV reviews a landmark paper reporting the first generative design of complete viral genomes using AI, producing 16 viable bacteriophages that overc…

1 week, 5 days ago

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Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

Episode 1354

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello remember Dolly Parton and her patronage of science, especially development of th…

1 week, 6 days ago

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Phage bet-hedging and EBV antibodies

Episode 1353

TWiV explores how bacteriophages enable bet-hedge against bacterial immune defenses, and how transgenic mice engineered to produce human antibodies y…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

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Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

Episode 1352

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are disheartened by the suggested change in federal vaccine recommendations, how…

3 weeks ago

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Ebola Virus Brains and Contagious Catfish Cancers

Episode 1351

TWiV describes a human cerebral organoid model for Ebola virus persistence, and brown bullhead catfish melanoma, a novel transmissible cancer.

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

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Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

Episode 1350

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are perplexed by the state of global public health as malaria, cholera and other…

4 weeks ago

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Smallpox and mummies

Episode 1349

TWiV explains how liquid–liquid phase separation and a phage-encoded inhibitor cooperatively drive transcriptional transition during phage SPO1 infec…

1 month ago

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