For World AIDS Day 2016, Vincent speaks with Gary Nabel, Chief Scientific Officer at Sanofi and former Director of the Vaccine Research Institute of NIAID, about his career and his work on HIV vaccines. You can find this TWiV Special at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen and watch here. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV-special-nabel.mp3″] Click arrow to play Download this TWiV Special (25 MB …
The multi-dimensional TWiV-brane brings you the entries in the haiku/limerick contest, and explain how a giant virus infects a host within another host (it has to do with predators!). You can find TWiV #416 at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen below. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV416.mp3″] Click arrow to play Download TWiV 416 (77 MB .mp3, 126 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV!
The popular history of HIV/AIDS describes a man known as Patient Zero, a sexually active flight attendant who traveled the globe and initiated the AIDS epidemic in North America. A new analysis of the viral genome recovered from his serum and that of other patients in the 1970s proves beyond a doubt that he was …
Jeremy Luban, Aaron Lin, and Ted Diehl join the TWiV team to discuss their work on identifying a single amino acid change in the Ebola virus glycoprotein from the West African outbreak that increases infectivity in human cells. You can find TWiV #415 at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen below. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV415.mp3″] Click arrow to play Download TWiV 415 (67 MB …
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I spoke with Eva Harris of the University of California, Berkeley, on the state of Zika virus in Nicaragua.
In this episode of Virus Watch, we explore the finding that Zika virus infects the testis of mice, causing damage to the organ, reduced sperm production, and less fertility. The important question: does the same happen in humans?
