This Week in Virology
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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.
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TWiV 1263: Dementia vaccine?
TWiV reviews continuing US measles outbreak, host and genetic variations that regulate antibody responses to hepatitis C virus, and varicella-zoster r...
TWiV 1262: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello are dismayed by the government shutdown, the firings at the CDC including EIS agent...
TWiV 1261: Must-see TVs
TWiV covers a MacArthur Award for Jason McLellan, 2025 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, first treatment for Huntington’s Disease, structure of...
TWiV 1260: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello chat about Jane Goodall’s death and the Nobel prize in Physiology/Medicine for unde...
TWiV 1259: Capricious flu and a tickborne clue
TWiV reviews experiments to understand infection, pathogenesis, and transmission of avian H5N1 influenza virus in goats, and identification of a cellu...
TWiV 1258: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello chat about the ongoing Ebola outbreak in DRC, increases in screwworm diagnoses, a p...
TWiV 1257: Better cocktails and CRISPR chicken
TWiV explains experiments to create genetically modified chickens that are resistant to avian influenza infection, and discovery of combination antivi...
TWiV 1256: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
TWiV 1256: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
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TWiV 1255: Virologists in Greece
Vincent travels to Thessaloniki, Greece to attend the 27th meeting of the European Society for Clinical Virology, where he speaks with Pamela Vallely,...
TWiV 1254: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello lament the anti-vaccine, anti-science composition of the ACIP, US cases of Chagas d...
TWiV 1253: Harvard virology is not retreating
Vincent travels to Waterville Valley, NH to attend the Harvard virology retreat, where he speaks with Aaron Schmidt, Ben Gewurz, and Tatum Sass about...
TWiV 1252: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello discuss the continued Legionnaire’s outbreak in Harlem, invasive Asia longhorned ti...
TWiV Special: David Baltimore, remembered
TWiV re-issues our 100th episode which featured a discussion of viruses with David Baltimore, an exemplary scientist and Vincent’s exemplary mentor, w...
TWiV 1251: Swedish models and agent 007
TWiV reviews a study showing that the 2009 influenza pandemic virus disrupted biennial respiratory syncytial virus epidemics in northern Stockholm, an...
TWiV 1250: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello is shocked by COVID vaccine restrictions and uncertainties such as pharmacy stock,...
TWiV 1249: Demented and crAss
TWiV reviews the major shakeup in CDC leadership, herpes simplex virus infection doubles the risk of dementia, and the prototypic crAssphage is a line...
TWiV 1248: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello are dismayed about the recent attack on public health the firing of the director of...
TWiV 1247: In the company of vaccines with Stanley Plotkin
Stanley Plotkin joins TWiV to recount his career as a vaccinologist, having participated in the development of vaccines for polio, rabies, and rubella...
TWiV 1246: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello discusses outbreaks of Vibrio vulnificus and Legionnaire’s disease in Harlem, the r...
TWiV 1245: Grabbing herpesvirus with both arms
TWiV reviews fradulent science becoming an industry, FDA may not authorize Pfizer COVID vaccine for young kids, Kennedy won’t push strict pesticide re...
TWiV 1244: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello discusses Vijay Prasad’s return to the FDA, revoking of COVID vaccine authorization...
TWiV 1243: Capitalism, COVID, and cancer
TWiV discusses the latest worrisome Executive Order on oversight of federal grantmaking, RFK Jr winds down mRNA viral vaccine development, Lenacapavir...
TWiV 1242: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello re-address the dangers of drinking raw milk, the Legionnaire’s outbreak in Harlem a...
TWiV 1241: The most beautiful experiment
TWiV reports the administration putting a choke hold on billions of NIH health research funding, US Senators tell scientists they want to protect the...
TWiV 1240: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello chat about the recent Salmonella typhimurim outbreak, the ousting of another CBER d...
TWiV 1239: Aluminum and antibodies
TWiV explains a cohort study of over one million Danish children which shows no evidence supporting an increased risk for autoimmune, atopic or allerg...
TWiV 1238: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello chat about how flies and milk-snatching might contribute to influenza virus H5N1 am...
TWiV 1237: Hepatitis C and persistence with Charlie Rice
From the 2025 annual meeting of the American Society for Virology, Charlie Rice, 2020 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, talks with Vincent and...
TWiV 1236: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello have a morning chat about the measles epidemic and H5N1 in cows before Dr. Griffin...
TWiV 1235: Two sexy to eradicate
David Barton, Brian Kemp, and Olve Peersen join TWiV to discuss RNA recombination among enteroviruses and its role in foiling poliovirus eradication.<...
TWiV 1234: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello note that history is being rewritten for justification of changes in COVID vaccine...
TWiV 1233: Long COVID and big bats
TWiV covers FDA Director overriding scientists on COVID shots, NIH funded science must now be free to read instantly, Trump cuts subscriptions to Spri...
TWiV 1232: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello are shocked at how vaccine safety is undercut by misrepresenting thimerosal safety,...
TWiV 1231: What is a virus?
TWiV discusses Sen. Cassidy calling for ACIP meeting delay, RFK Jr. abandons GAVI, millions of children at risk as global vaccination rates fall, RFK...
TWiV 1230: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello are alarmed at how RFK is breaking his promise of not altering vaccine policies, an...
TWiV 1229: Virology throughout Europe
Rich travels to Dubrovnik for the European Congress of Virology 2025 and Vincent joins via Zoom to speak with Stéphane Blanc, Vanda Juranić Lisnić, an...
TWiV 1228: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss in shock how RFK is breaking his promise of not altering vaccine policies by...
TWiV Special: Long COVID and ME/CFS with David Tuller
David Tuller returns to TWiV to discuss RFK Jr. and the trashing of American public health, rituximab and ME/CFS, The Sick Times, the Cochrane Mess, a...
TWiV 1227: How can antibody forget a pandemic?
TWiV reviews the administrations dismantling of the committee that studies pandemic potential, firing of CDC vaccine advisory committee and replacing...