This Week in Virology

Weekly conversations deconstructing viruses, disease and research AI summary

Vincent Racaniello Visit website › Science & Medicine · EN · 100 episodes · latest 2026-11-12

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TWiV is a weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Professors Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler and science writer Alan Dove and guests deconstruct viruses, how they cause illness, and dissect the latest research.

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    2026-11-12 · 54 min

    Vincent travels to the 8th Measles Mini Symposium at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN where he meets with Paul Rota and Patrick Sinn to discuss their careers and their work on measles virus. Host: Vincent Racaniello…

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    2026-11-08 · 1 hr 50 min · Episode 1373

    TWiV explains results of a dengue virus human challenge which reveals that preexisting immunity shapes viral replication and broadly protective responses, and how influenza virus antagonizes self-sensing by RIG-I to…

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    2026-11-07 · 53 min · Episode 1372

    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,…

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    2026-11-01 · 1 hr 49 min · Episode 1371

    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: Vincent Racaniello,…

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    2026-10-31 · 1 hr 1 min · Episode 370

    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…

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    2026-10-25 · 1 hr 57 min · Episode 1369

    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:…

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    2026-10-24 · 55 min · Episode 1368

    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…

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    2026-10-18 · 1 hr 53 min

    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…

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    2026-10-17 · 1 hr 2 min · Episode 1366

    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…

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    2026-10-11 · 57 min · Episode 1365

    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:…

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Oldest episode in feed
12/2025
Typical length
1 hr 17 min
Format
Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
Keywords
racaniello, vincent, twiv, virus, virology, microbe, microbiology, pathogen

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