influenza

Hosts: Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier Alan, Rich, and Dickson discuss Edward Jenner’s paper on cowpox vaccine, then move 200 years later to modern vaccines against norovirus, influenza H5N1, and more. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 170 (72 MB .mp3, 100 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at [...]

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Michael Walsh Michael and the TWiV team review epidemiology basics, including fatality ratios. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 169 (64 MB .mp3, 152 minutes). Right-click this link to download only our discussion on how to read a science paper (22 MB .mp3, [...]

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Welkin Johnson Welkin joins the TWiV team for a discussion of HIV prophlaxis using vectored antibodies, and the influenza H5N1 virus studies in ferrets that were not redacted. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 168 (59 MB .mp3, 98 minutes). Subscribe to [...]

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove The complete TWiVome deconstructs the movie Contagion. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 167 (53 MB .mp3, 88  minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device [...]

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove Vincent, Alan, and Rich review ten compelling virology stories of 2011. Please help us by taking our listener survey. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 164 (60 MB .mp3, 99 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the [...]

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich review concern over an influenza H5N1 transmission experiment, and a new host defense protein against RNA viruses. Please help us by taking our listener survey. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 159 (48 MB .mp3, 80 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV [...]

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TWiV 150: Contaminated

September 25, 2011

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier Vincent, Dickson, and Rich meant to do an all-email episode, but first they review results of the Blood XMRV Scientific Research Working Group, and partial retraction of the paper associating XMRV with chronic fatigue syndrome. With this episode TWiV is three years old. Click the arrow above to play, [...]

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Hosts: Alan Dove and Rich Condit Alan and Rich tackle the discovery of bacteriophages, and treating influenza by calming the cytokine storm. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 145 (63 MB .mp3, 87 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or [...]

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Julie Overbaugh, and Stacey Schultz-Cherry Vincent, Rich, Julie and Stacey recorded TWiV at the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology in Minneapolis, where they discussed the role of neutralizing antibodies in protection against HIV-1 infection, and astroviruses, agents of gastroenteritis. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click [...]

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TWiV 121: Huskies go viral

February 20, 2011

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Katze, Michael Gale, Deborah Fuller, and Shawn Iadonato A conversation about careers in virology, systems biology, innate immunity, and antiviral research recorded at the University of Washington in Seattle. Click the arrow above to play, or right click to download TWiV #121 (65 MB .mp3, 90 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in [...]

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