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January 22, 2012
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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November 27, 2011
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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December 19, 2010
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich review the making of a virulent poxvirus by insertion of the gene encoding IL-4, and severe 2009 H1N1 influenza due to pathogenic immune complexes. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #112 (71 MB .mp3, 98 minutes). To download, right-click or [...]
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October 17, 2010
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and LJ Tan Vincent and Alan discuss influenza vaccines with LJ Tan of the American Medical Association. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #103 (56 MB .mp3, 77 minutes) Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, or by [...]
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September 19, 2010
Host: Vincent Racaniello On episode 99 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent tours the 50th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in Boston, speaking with exhibitors and visitors, including Professors Derek Smith, Michael Schmidt, Frederick Hayden, and Myra McClure. Many thanks to Chris Condayan and Ray Ortega of the American Society for [...]
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August 15, 2010
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich consider the end of the influenza H1N1 pandemic, dengue in Florida, vaccinia virus infection in Brazilian monkeys, and viruses in the faecal microbiota. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #95 (68 MB .mp3, 94 minutes) Subscribe to [...]
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July 4, 2010
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove Vincent and Alan review recent findings on the association of the retrovirus XMRV with ME/CFS, reassortment of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in swine, and where influenza viruses travel in the off-season. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #89 (56 MB .mp3, 78 minutes) Subscribe [...]
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April 11, 2010
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich revisit circovirus contamination of Rotarix, then discuss poxvirus-like replication of mimivirus in the cell cytoplasm, and whether seasonal influenza immunization increases the risk of infection with the 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus. This episode is sponsored by Data Robotics Inc. Use the promotion code [...]
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March 21, 2010
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Adolfo Garcia-Sastre Vincent speaks with Adolfo Garcia-Sastre about the origin, pathogenesis, and prevention of the 2009 pandemic influenza H1N1 virus. This episode is sponsored by Data Robotics Inc. Use the promotion code VINCENT to receive $50 off a Drobo or $100 off a Drobo S. Win a free Drobo S! Contest [...]
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February 7, 2010
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich review recent outbreaks of mumps in the UK, US, and Israel, protection of mice against 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus by 1918-like and classical swine H1N1 vaccines, and a virus-like particle vaccine for chikungunya virus. This episode is sponsored by Data Robotics Inc. [...]
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