Podcast Episodes

Theodora the explorer

Episode 465

Theodora Hatziioannou joins the TWiV team to discuss a macaque model for AIDS, and how a cell protein that blocks HIV-1 infection interacts with doub…

8 years, 4 months ago

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Boston baked viruses

Episode 464

At Tufts University Dental School in Boston, Vincent speaks with Katya Heldwein and Sean Whelan about their careers and their work on herpesvirus str…

8 years, 4 months ago

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We haven't meth but these names ring Nobel

Episode 463

The TWiViridae review the 2017 Nobel Prizes for cryoEM and circadian rhythms, and discuss modulation of plant virus replication by RNA methylation.

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8 years, 4 months ago

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Tear it up with David Tuller

David Tuller returns to discuss his efforts to expose the methodological and ethical problems with the PACE trial for ME/CFS.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniel…

8 years, 4 months ago

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TWiV 462: Splicing RNA with Phillip A. Sharp

Episode 462

Vincent speaks with 1993 Nobel Laureate Phillip A. Sharp about his career and his seminal discovery of RNA splicing in mammalian cells, which changed…

8 years, 4 months ago

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Gotta trace them all!

Episode 461

The TWiVers discuss the declining readability of scientific texts, and review the use of self-inactivating rabies virus for tracing neural circuits.

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8 years, 5 months ago

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Penn, a great sandbox for science

Episode 460

Vincent travels to the University of Pennsylvania and speaks with virologists Gary Cohen, Scott Hensley, Carolina Lopez, and Susan Weiss about their …

8 years, 5 months ago

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Polio turns over a new leaf

Episode 459

The TWiV team reviews the first FDA approved gene therapy, accidental exposure to poliovirus type 2 in a manufacturing plant, and production of a can…

8 years, 5 months ago

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Saliva of the fittest

Episode 458

The TWiVians present an imported case of yellow fever in New York City, and explain how a dengue virus subgenomic RNA disrupts immunity in mosquito s…

8 years, 5 months ago

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The Red Queen meets the White Rabbit

Episode 457

Brianne returns to the TWiV Gang to discuss the distribution of proteins on the influenza viral genome, and the evolution of myxoma virus that was re…

8 years, 5 months ago

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