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🌍 Earth's Virology Professor 🎙 https://nitter.cf/t.co/Z9gk3N2HaS host 🎥 https://nitter.cf/t.co/GhFkgkbJBI
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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