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Back to SearchCOVID-19 clinical update #62 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Episode 755
In COVID-19 clinical update #62, Daniel Griffin covers outdoor transmission of the virus, safe use of NSAIDS, expansion of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to…
4 years, 9 months ago
Tuesday two: SARS-CoV-2 and TLR2
Episode 754
TWiV discusses the finding that the envelope (E) protein of SARS-CoV-2 is sensed by toll-like receptor 2 on cells, leading to the production of infla…
4 years, 9 months ago
The ferret nose where the virus goes
Episode 753
TWiV revisits Brazil’s rejection of Sputnik vaccine, examines influenza transmission via the air from the nasal epithelium of ferrets, and a history …
4 years, 9 months ago
COVID-19 clinical update #61 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Episode 752
In COVID-19 clinical update #61, Daniel Griffin reviews a modeling of future hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination rates and non pharmaceutical …
4 years, 9 months ago
Sputnik spat and furin in ferrets
Episode 751
TWiV examines the claim by Brazil’s ANVISA that the Sputnik vaccine contains replication-competent adenovirus, and a role for the furin cleavage site…
4 years, 10 months ago
To err is viral
Episode 750
The TWiVmeisters discuss how copy-back defective viral genomes might modulate the clinical outcome of respiratory syncytial virus infection, and dete…
4 years, 10 months ago
COVID-19 clinical update #60 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Episode 749
In COVID-19 clinical update #60, Daniel Griffin summarizes CDC guidance for summer camps, how to protect yourself when fully vaccinated, updated reco…
4 years, 10 months ago
SARS-CoV-2 gets a sense of humoral
Episode 748
A TWiV trio explains a method for sequencing single genomes of SARS-CoV-2 and its use to explore in-host evolution drive by antibody responses, and i…
4 years, 10 months ago
COVID-19 clinical update #59 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Episode 747
Daniel Griffin discusses a front-line health care worker survey, pre-exposure seropositivity and subsequent infection in healthy young adults, fitted…
4 years, 10 months ago
Encephalitis viruses dine on caveolae
Episode 746
Team TWiV explains how alphaviruses like Western equine encephalitis virus cross into the brain from capillaries by caveolin-mediated transcytosis, a…
4 years, 10 months ago