🌍 Earth's Virology Professor 🎙 microbe.tv host 🎥 YouTube.com/profvrr
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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, & more. 📺 bit.ly/4z0J40j
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Daniel & Vincent’s frustration continues over the increasing number of measles infections, Kennedy’s undermining of vaccines, perpetuation of autism-vaccine, autism-Tylenol myths, an outbreak of hepatitis A virus in the US, & Ebola outbreak in Uganda. 📺 bit.ly/4dTtNWL
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Tonight! ⏰ Join Vincent Racaniello for Office Hours to answer your questions about viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, Mpox virus, poliovirus, influenza virus, and more on this livestream on Wednesday 9/23/26 at 8pm Eastern US. 📺 bit.ly/4rtx44V
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Immune Booster 37: Secret lives of neutrophils with Tanya Mayadas 〰️ Tanya Mayadas joins Immune to talk about her road to study neutrophils and her research findings on neutrophil antigen presentation and novel neutrophil targeting therapies. 📺 bit.ly/46yz3LH
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TWiP 288: Taco Bell and the Case of the Runny Jobbies 🥬 TWiP solves the case of the NYC woman in her 30s who developed 3 weeks of significant watery diarrhea after eating at a Taco Bell Restaurant. 📺 bit.ly/4yT4tbK
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Beyond the Noise #110: RFK Jr. and the Measles Outbreak, It’s About to Get Worse 〰️ For several reasons, the measles outbreak in Pennsylvania is about to get worse. 📺 bit.ly/4rjhhW5
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We discuss how the absence of measles virus receptors in the brain selects for hyperfusogenic variants that spread neuron-to-neuron and cause subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a rare but fatal long-term neurological sequela of measles infection. 📺 bit.ly/3TGEvJp
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Daniel & Vincent are angered by the continuous reporting of measles deaths in the US and around the world, the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, establishing an NIH research center on vaccine harms, Legionnaires at Yankee stadium, & more. 📺 bit.ly/4iydRwv
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Paul Bieniasz discusses 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. 📺 bit.ly/3ULtCGA
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Daniel and Vincent delve into dengue virus infections in Florida, proposed changes in biomedical funding including “converting” the Department of War into NIAID, and continuing controversy over deaths of 2 children in Pennsylvania from measles. 📺 bit.ly/4yDIYf0
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Tonight! ⏰ Join Vincent Racaniello for Office Hours to answer your questions about viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, Mpox virus, poliovirus, influenza virus, and more on this livestream on Wednesday 9/9/26 at 8pm Eastern US. 📺 bit.ly/4gWiI85
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Adam Waickman discusses the unusual reason he got into studying immunology just in humans, his important studies on Dengue virus vaccine antibodies, and the problematic phenomenon of antibody dependent enhancement. 📺 bit.ly/4xIZSsr
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Mumtaz Balkhi joins TWiP to discuss phase 1 and 1b trials of the schistosomiasis vaccine SchistoShield, which demonstrate that it induces functional immune memory responses in US and African populations. 📺 bit.ly/3Vjzy9N
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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. 📺 bit.ly/46Flzh4
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Daniel Griffin & 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 dementia, and more. 📺 bit.ly/4xeEuu6
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Tonight! ⏰ Join Vincent Racaniello for Office Hours to answer your questions about viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, Mpox virus, poliovirus, influenza virus, and more on this livestream on Wednesday 9/2/26 at 8pm Eastern US. 📺 bit.ly/4ykXnwr
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Rasmussen Retorts #12: Fauci, Wuhan & the COVID Lab Leak, What the Evidence Actually Says 📺 bit.ly/4qQ96R5
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TWiV explores how bacteriophages enable bet-hedge against bacterial immune defenses, & how transgenic mice engineered to produce human antibodies yielded potent anti-EBV candidates targeting gp350 & gp42, promising step toward Epstein-Barr therapeutics. 📺 bit.ly/4y4b0zM
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Daniel & Vincent are disheartened by suggested change in federal vaccine recommendations, how Florida rolled back 4 childhood vaccine school requirements, continued national cyclosporiasis and screwworm outbreaks, & size of Ebola outbreak in the Congo. 📺 bit.ly/4xtY0nm
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TWiP 286: Pinworms keep coming back! How to stop reinfection in your home 🪱 TWiP solves the case of the adult female with a two-year-old child who develops anal irritation, but the child and the husband are fine. 📺 bit.ly/4gXmFus
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