This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Virology is a netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick.

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#1372
Today · 52 min
TWiV 1372: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are cautiously elated by results of election day 2026 on the backdrop of additional measles associated deaths in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and New York, return of mpox, Chagas disease...
#1371
Sunday · 1 hr 49 min
TWiV 1371: How to Bat Away Marburg Virus
TWiV discusses an outbreak of H5N1 influenza viruses in Utah farmed mink, and divergent species-specific antiviral responses in Marburg virus infected cells from reservoir bats and humans. Hosts: , , and Subscribe (free): , , Become...
#370
October 31 · 1 hr 1 min
TWiV 1370: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are distressed by the continued upheaval of leadership at the CDC, recent news of H5 highly pathogenic influenza virus found on mink farms in Utah and in the polar bear population of...
#1369
October 25 · 1 hr 57 min
TWiV 1369: Florida Model Makes Measles Great Again
TWiV explains projected effects of removing school-entry vaccination requirements on measles transmission in Florida and evidence that HLA class I escape drives the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in human populations. Hosts: , , , Subscribe (free):...
#1368
October 24 · 54 min
TWiV 1368: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are discouraged by the continuous attack on vaccines especially the birth dose of the hepatitis B virus vaccine, effects of the 2026 changes in immunization schedule, the global...
October 18 · 1 hr 52 min
TWiV 1367: Turning Off Hepatitis B Virus Without Cutting its DNA
TWiV explains a study which shows that influenza A virus infection induces immune dysregulation in the placenta and fetus without vertical transmission in nonhuman primates, and development of an epigenetic silencer therapy to transcriptionally...
#1366
October 17 · 1 hr 1 min
TWiV 1366: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are crestfallen to learn of the 6th measles death in Pennsylvania and more than 9000 deaths from Ebola, an enterovirus/Coxsackievirus outbreak at the University of Pennsylvania,...
#1365
October 11 · 56 min
TWiV 1365: Andes Virus Up Close
TWiV travels to Porto, Portugal for the annual meeting of the European Society for Clinical Virology, where he speaks with Catherine and Corinne about their work on the Andes virus outbreak on the MV Hondius. Host: Guests: and Subscribe...
#1364
October 10 · 1 hr 14 min
TWiV 1364: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss their continuing struggle to understand the ongoing outbreak of cyclospora, decimation of US public health including 30% or greater loss of personnel from the CDC, continuing...
#1363
October 4 · 1 hr 53 min
TWiV 1363: A Cauldron of Bats
TWiV explains a study testing how 16 hypothesized social and environmental drivers impact disease outbreaks, concluding that infectious disease spillover and emergence are multi-causal, and that no one-size-fits-all strategy can prevent epidemics and...
#1362
October 3 · 53 min
TWiV 1362: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello continue their ongoing exasperation over 5 deaths in Pennsylvania associated with measles infections, the absurdity of RFK Jr.’s statement that AI is better informed than...
#1361
September 27 · 1 hr 46 min
TWiV 1361: Ancient Viral Sword and Shield
TWiV explains discovery of a previously unknown mechanism of RNA-guided DNA recognition for genetic control that possibly predates the emergence of CRISPR pathways, and the possibility that Alzheimer’s Disease neuropathology evolved as a...
#1360
September 26 · 1 hr
TWiV 1360: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello frustration continues over the increasing number of measles infections, Kennedy’s undermining of vaccines, perpetuation of autism- vaccine, autism-tylenol myths, an outbreak of...
#1359
September 20 · 1 hr 10 min
TWiV 1359: SSPE, the Long Shadow of Measles
Roberto Cattaneo and Kalpana Yadav join TWiV at the 2026 meeting of the American Society for Virology to discuss how the absence of measles virus receptors in the brain selects for hyperfusogenic variants that spread neuron-to-neuron and cause...
#1358
September 19 · 53 min
TWiV 1358: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are angered by the continuous reporting of measles deaths in the US and around the world, the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, changes in reporting of virus infection and vaccine...
#1357
September 13 · 1 hr 44 min
TWiV 1357: Furin, Naturally with Paul Bieniasz
Paul Bieniasz joins TWiV to discuss his lab’s discovery that the coronavirus nuclease NSP15 cuts viral RNA into oligonucleotides that are reinserted elsewhere in the viral RNA, generating insertion mutations at a frequency above 10⁻³ per genome,...
#1356
September 12 · 47 min
TWiV 1356: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello delve into dengue virus infections in Florida, recent human rabies infections in the US, proposed changes in biomedical funding including “converting” the Department of War into...
#1355
September 6 · 1 hr 38 min
TWiV 1355: Four billion years of AI training data
TWiV reviews a landmark paper reporting the first generative design of complete viral genomes using AI, producing 16 viable bacteriophages that overcame antibiotic-resistant bacteria where natural phages could not, and a study suggesting that...
#1354
September 5 · 1 hr 5 min
TWiV 1354: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello remember Dolly Parton and her patronage of science, especially development of the COVID-19 vaccines, if the shingles vaccine protect against cardiovascular events as well as...
#1353
August 30 · 1 hr 52 min
TWiV 1353: Phage bet-hedging and EBV antibodies
TWiV explores how bacteriophages enable bet-hedge against bacterial immune defenses, and how transgenic mice engineered to produce human antibodies yielded potent anti-EBV candidates targeting gp350 and gp42, a promising step toward Epstein-Barr...

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