Virology

Protect, modify, deprotect, and vaccinate

Influenza virus (left). HA is shown in blue. Right, HA molecule. Colored atoms illustrate variable epitopes on the HA head, and conserved epitopes on the HA stem. A method for making vaccines that induce antibodies against a specific epitope could be used to produce a universal influenza vaccine that would not ...

TWiV 549: The church of protocadherin

Kartik Chandran and Rohit Jangra join the TWiV team to present their identification of protocadherin-1 as a cell receptor for New World hantaviruses. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 549 (62 MB .mp3, 103 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv

Fatal yellow fever in a transplant recipient

Infection with yellow fever virus caused the death of a patient 25 years after receiving a kidney transplant, illustrating the difficulties associated with some medical vaccine exemptions. The patient had received a kidney transplant at the age of 58 in February 1993. Nearly 25 years later he was admitted to ...

TWiV 548: Mice, shrews, and caterpillars

https://youtu.be/l33laF8ZkPA Vincent travels to the European Congress of Virology in Rotterdam and with local co-host Marion Koopmans speaks with Martin Beer, Stephan Gunther, and Vera Ross about their careers and their work on Lassa virus, Borna virus, and insect viruses. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 548 (43 MB .mp3, 72 min) ...

Michael Rossmann, 88

https://youtu.be/LJDkocKSQv8 Michael Rossmann, a leader in the use of X-ray crystallography and cry-electron microscopy to solve the structure of viruses, died on 14 May 2019 at the age of 88. I met Michael many times but had the good fortune to interview him during the preparation of the fourth edition ...
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