TWiV 1323: One influenza infection, two patients

TWiV explains mRNA delivery of mosaic-8 pan-sarbecovirus RBD vaccines, and how toll-like receptor 7 alters the maternal immune landscape during influenza A infection to increase maternal and fetal morbidity,

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email)
• RFK Jr. driving vast inquiry into vaccines (NY Times)
• Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school (Science)
• Trump cuts CDC role in PEPFAR (Science)
• Ralph Baric retires (The Assembly)
• Baric to fight NIH funding ban (Science)
• Ebola outbreak in DRC (npr)
• Persistence of Andes virus RNA in human semen (Viruses)
• mRNA delivery of mosaic-8 pan-sarbecovirus RBD vaccines (Cell Rep)
• Science will break your heart (TWiV 920)
• TLR7 and maternal and fetal morbidity during influenza (Sci Adv)
• Letters read on TWiV 1323
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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