Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRough draft of Omicron origins
Episode 861
Nels joins TWiV to discuss hypotheses for the origins of Omicron, including that it came from mice or arose during chronic infection of an immunocomp…
3 years, 11 months ago
Evading a Toll on the road to RNA vaccines
Episode 860
TWiV reviews a seminal paper showing that chemically modified bases in RNAs suppress recognition by Toll-like receptors, a finding that that was esse…
3 years, 11 months ago
COVID-19 clinical update #99 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Episode 859
In COVID-19 clinical update #99, Daniel Griffin discusses Omicron disease severity, neurologic manifestations in children, testing outcomes during mu…
3 years, 11 months ago
The vax of life with John Mascola
Episode 858
John Mascola joins TWiV to discuss the history and mission of the NIH Vaccine Research Center, how it prepared for devising pandemic vaccines, and de…
3 years, 11 months ago
Not just antibody, Jon Yewdell
Episode 857
Jon Yewdell returns to TWiV to discuss how antibodies are made, vaccination against SARS-CoV-2, antigenic variation of the virus, booster shots, and …
3 years, 11 months ago
COVID-19 clinical update #98 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Episode 856
In COVID-19 clinical update #98, Daniel Griffin reviews COVID-19 in South Africa, recognition of Omicron by ancestral T cells, booster effectiveness …
3 years, 11 months ago
T time with Alessandro Sette
Episode 855
Alessandro Sette returns to TWiV to discuss the observation that SARS-CoV-2 vaccination induces T cells that are able to cross-recognize variants Alp…
3 years, 11 months ago
Omicron is evasive
Episode 854
TWiV reviews findings that increased fitness of the Omicron variant is due to immune evasion, not an increase in intrinsic transmissibility, and dete…
3 years, 11 months ago
COVID-19 clinical update #97 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Episode 853
In COVID-19 clinical update #97, Daniel Griffin covers immunity after infection recognized by CDC, outcomes before and after Omicron, infectious vira…
4 years ago
Tree man syndrome
Episode 852
A TWiV threesome explains the observation that humans with inherited T cell CD28 deficiency are susceptible to severe warts driven by human papilloma…
4 years ago