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This Week in Virology

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This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

June 26, 2026 11:00pm 31 min

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the global economic burden of infectious disease, restoring trust in vaccinology, the Legionnaires outbreak in Harlem, new screwworm cases, the...

Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

June 26, 2026 11:00pm 31 min

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the global economic burden of infectious disease, restoring trust in vaccinology, the Legionnaires outbreak in Harlem, new screwworm cases, the...

STING like a nanoparticle, float like HIV

June 20, 2026 11:00pm 1:54

TWiV explains research showing how HIV-1 signalling remodels nuclear pores to licence infection, and development of STING agonist nanoparticles to enable coordinated mucosal-systemic immunity for durable pan-β-coronaviru...

Ebola virus and Andes virus with John Dye

June 20, 2026 12:47pm 57 min

Vincent travels to ASM Microbe in Washington DC to speak with John Dye of the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases about the recent outbreaks of Bundibugyo ebolavirus in Africa and Andes v...

Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

June 19, 2026 11:00pm 54 min

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello express concern about vaccine policy and ACIP, scaling back of the CDC's role in global public health, shingles vaccine and dementia, new screwworm cas...

A drug for cervical cancer

June 13, 2026 11:20pm 1:58

TWiV explains research showing that dairy cows are infected with low doses of influenza A(H5N1) and do not transmit efficiently to other animals, and covalent inhibitors of human papillomavirus type 16 E6 protein that re...

Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

June 12, 2026 11:00pm 1:11

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello opine on the recent executive order on the routine childhood vaccination schedule, the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and Uganda including the fast track ...

How HIV-1 goes nuclear

June 06, 2026 11:00pm 1:50

TWiV explains research showing limited transmission of cervid prions to nonhuman primates, and the finding that cone-shaped HIV-1 capsids are transported through intact nuclear pores. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove...

Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

June 05, 2026 11:00pm 1:00

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello opine on the recent executive order on the routine childhood vaccination schedule, the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and Uganda including the fast track ...

Influenza viruses in the MIST

May 30, 2026 11:00pm 1:59

TWiV explains research on human influenza virus transmission that reveals heterogeneous expulsion of infectious virus into air, and how gut bacteriophages dictate inflammation heterogeneity through tuning the phage-bacte...

Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

May 29, 2026 11:00pm 38 min

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello comment on incidences of locally transmitted malaria in the US, mpox diagnostics, the latest developments surrounding hantavirus infections, and the Eb...

Sticky flu with Hannah Rowe

May 23, 2026 11:00pm 57 min

Vincent travels to Oregon State University in Corvallis to meet up with Hannah Rowe to talk about her career and her work demonstrating how the interaction of influenza A virus and Streptococcus pneumonia influences tran...

Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

May 22, 2026 11:54pm 45 min

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss withdrawal of the ACIP charter published in April 2026, the first council meeting on antibiotic resistant bacteria, the latest developments sur...

One influenza infection, two patients

May 16, 2026 11:00pm 1:48

TWiV explains mRNA delivery of mosaic-8 pan-sarbecovirus RBD vaccines, and how toll-like receptor 7 alters the maternal immune landscape during influenza A infection to increase maternal and fetal morbidity, Hosts: Vince...

Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin - Hantavirus special

May 15, 2026 11:00pm 53 min

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello reviewed the latest developments surrounding the hantavirus outbreak, including new interim guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...

Phage cross talk and cross reactions

May 09, 2026 11:00pm 1:52

TWiV explains how cross-reactive anti-prophage antibodies and bacterial heteroresistance is implicated in phage therapeutic failure, and how phages communicate across species to shape microbial ecosystems. Hosts: Vincent...

Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

May 08, 2026 11:00pm 44 min

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the outbreak of Hantavirus on a cruise ship and its potential for person-person transmission, how cessation of funding for global health by the Tr...

An earful of SARS-CoV-2

May 02, 2026 11:00pm 1:43

TWiV explains the emergence of vaccine-derived poliovirus strains from the novel oral polio vaccine in the Central African Republic, and the infection of spiral ganglion neurons in the inner ear by SARS-CoV-2, which may ...

Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

May 01, 2026 11:00pm 1:08

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello note the uncertain future of the National Science Foundation amid shifting U.S. funding priorities and governance; the rise of China as a global research ...

Dead shrimp walking

April 25, 2026 11:00pm 1:41

TWiV explains a study showing that viral DNA load in blood and saliva varied markedly with age, time of day season, sex, and depended on dozens of genetic loci, and identification of an emerging human eye disease associa...

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