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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.

Science Natural Sciences Life Sciences
Update frequency
every 3 days
Average duration
86 minutes
Episodes
1282
Years Active
2008 - 2025
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TWiV 1057: CMV-based HIV vaccine with Klaus Früh

TWiV 1057: CMV-based HIV vaccine with Klaus Früh

Klaus Früh visits the Incubator to discuss his career and his work on cytomegalovirus-vectored vaccines which are unique in their ability to persistently maintain an immune shield of effector memory …

01:21:54  |   Sun 29 Oct 2023
TWiV 1056: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1056: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses health worker–perceived working conditions and symptoms of poor mental health, Mpox neutralizing antibodies at 6 months from mpox infection or MVA…

00:45:13  |   Sat 28 Oct 2023
TWiV 1055: Vermont viridae

TWiV 1055: Vermont viridae

Vincent travels to the University of Vermont to speak with Jason, Emily, Jessica, and Dimitry about their careers and their work on SARS-CoV-2, hantaviruses, poliovirus, influenza virus, and the invo…

01:41:53  |   Sun 22 Oct 2023
TWiV 1054: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1054: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses high Influenza incidence and disease severity among children and adolescents aged

00:42:27  |   Sat 21 Oct 2023
TWiV 1053: Bird flu in Baltimore

TWiV 1053: Bird flu in Baltimore

From the Centers for Excellence in Influenza Research and Response meeting in Baltimore, Vincent speaks with Ron Fouchier, Rafael Medina, and Louse Moncla about recent changes in the epidemiology of …

00:58:23  |   Sun 15 Oct 2023
TWiV 1052: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1052: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses disease severity of RSV compared with COVID-19 and Influenza among hospitalized adults aged ≥60 years, antiviral efficacy of Molnupiravir versus r…

00:42:15  |   Sat 14 Oct 2023
TWiV 1051: Like SARS-CoV-2 in the headlights

TWiV 1051: Like SARS-CoV-2 in the headlights

TWiV reviews the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their identification nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effectiv…

01:53:33  |   Sun 08 Oct 2023
TWiV 1050: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1050: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the effectiveness of maternal mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy against COVID-19–associated hospitalizations in infants aged

00:59:35  |   Sat 07 Oct 2023
TWiV 1049: Long COVID's book of homeostatic cats

TWiV 1049: Long COVID's book of homeostatic cats

TWiV explains how immune profiling was used to identify distinguishing features of Long COVID, and how a co-opted feline endogenous retroviral envelope promotes cell survival by controlling copper tr…

01:48:19  |   Sun 01 Oct 2023
TWiV 1048: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1048: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses a molnupiravir-associated mutational signature in global SARS-CoV-2 genomes, inhaled fluticasone furoate for outpatient treatment of COVID-19, opt…

00:44:40  |   Sat 30 Sep 2023
TWiV 1047: Long COVID and avian flu in ferrets

TWiV 1047: Long COVID and avian flu in ferrets

TWiV explains a study of postacute sequelae of COVID-19 at 2 years, and respiratory droplet transmission of human-isolated avian H3N8 influenza virus between ferrets.

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDicks…

01:48:56  |   Sun 24 Sep 2023
TWiV 1046: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1046: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses wastewater surveillance data as a complement to emergency department visit data for tracking the incidence of influenza A and RSV, chatbot-deliver…

00:47:28  |   Sat 23 Sep 2023
TWiV 1045: Less Lassa, CRISPR RNA viruses

TWiV 1045: Less Lassa, CRISPR RNA viruses

TWiV reviews a Lassa virus mRNA vaccine that confers protection against disease without inducing neutralizing antibodies, and a CRISPR-based method for engineering the genome of RNA viruses.

Hosts: V…

01:48:55  |   Sun 17 Sep 2023
TWiV 1044: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1044: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the immunogenicity and reactogenicity of coadministration of COVID-19 and Influenza vaccines, interim effectiveness estimates of 2023 southern hem…

00:42:51  |   Sat 16 Sep 2023
TWiV 1043: Marion Koopmans on COVID-19, Mpox, H5N1, polio and One Health

TWiV 1043: Marion Koopmans on COVID-19, Mpox, H5N1, polio and One Health

From the European Society for Clinical Virology meeting in Milan, Vincent speaks with Marion Koopmans about COVID-19, Mpox, H5N1 and polio, and the promise of a One Health approach to prevent outbrea…

01:01:58  |   Sun 10 Sep 2023
TWiV 1042: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1042: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses China’s health authorities fighting surge in cases of Mpox unknown origin, analysis of seasonal variation of antibiotic prescribing for respirator…

00:28:42  |   Sat 09 Sep 2023
TWiV 1041: Novel oral polio vaccine? with Raul Andino and Kostya Chumakov

TWiV 1041: Novel oral polio vaccine? with Raul Andino and Kostya Chumakov

Vincent speaks with Raul and Kostya about the development of novel oral polio vaccine from the Sabin type 2 strain, its deployment in over 600 million children, and whether it can lead to eradication…

01:29:07  |   Sun 03 Sep 2023
TWiV 1040: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1040: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the public health significance of finding autochthonous melioidosis cases in the continental United States, human neural larva migrans caused by O…

00:48:59  |   Sat 02 Sep 2023
TWiV 1039: Landmines for phages, a mouthful of redondoviruses

TWiV 1039: Landmines for phages, a mouthful of redondoviruses

TWiV describes how a viral capsid protein activates a bacterial innate immune system that interferes with protein synthesis, and human-associated redondoviruses that infect the commensal protozoan En…

02:01:20  |   Sun 27 Aug 2023
TWiV 1038: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1038: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses modeling poliovirus transmission and responses in New York State, FDA approves first vaccine for pregnant individuals to prevent RSV in infants, p…

00:26:57  |   Sat 26 Aug 2023
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