TWiV 1051: Like SARS-CoV-2 in the headlights

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 114 minutes

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TWiV reviews the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their identification nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19, and accelerated mutation of SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Angela Mingarelli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Spike shirts at vaccinated.us (promo code Microbetv) Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) 2023 Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine (Nobelprize.org) Evading a toll on the road to mRNA vaccines (TWiV 860) Katalin Karikó‘s overlooked work (Wired) Accelerated mutation of SARS-CoV-2 in deer (Nat Comm) Letters read on TWiV 1051 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – The New City. How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future Angela – 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Alan – The Ruin of All Witches, by Malcolm Gaskill Vincent – France kicks off bird flu vaccination despite trade backlash risk Listener Pick Charles – David Brooks and the $78 airport meal the internet is talking about John – Periodic Table of the Elements: Origins of the Elements AZ – Bronze statue of laboratory mouse knitting DNA in Russia Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]

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0:00.0	This week in virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:10.4	From micro TV, this is Twiv this week in virology episode 1051 recorded on October 6, 2023.
0:22.3	I'm Vincent Racken yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses
0:26.8	joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon, they palm. Yay.
0:32.4	Hello, everybody. And looking at the window, I would thank my lucky stars that I'm sitting inside
0:39.5	today. It's foggy. It's drizzly. It's yuck. It's a yuck day. So too bad.
0:46.4	Yeah, it's 21 in cloudy here. It's not a great day. Also joining us from western Massachusetts,
0:52.1	talent dove. Good to be here. And it's not drizzly yet, but it's going to be soon. It's overcast
0:58.8	and getting ready to rain. 69 Fahrenheit, 21C. From Montreal, Canada, Angela. I mean, good
1:06.9	alley. Is 22 C 71 Fahrenheit, I believe. So it's a little bit warmer than Alan. But we have a heavy
1:18.6	rainfall warning, like an extreme like 80 millimeters of rain from now until a lot of rain Sunday.
1:25.0	So yeah, 80 millimeters Thanksgiving, also this weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving.
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1:56.7	is $2 basically. I treated that cheap coffee. It's cheap coffee. Yeah, most of them are more expensive.
2:03.7	I bought, I treated myself today. I went past, there's a brand new Lebanese takeout on 7th avenue.
2:11.7	And they had a nice chicken sharma wrap in the window. So it's a pizza wrap around. So I bought one.
2:20.8	And it was so good. Now, why am I telling you the sharma? We were talking about food prices,
2:26.8	so how much was it? It was $15. And you're kidding. That's a lot of money for a wrap. I mean,
2:36.4	it was, I mean, it was a foot long. And it just had chicken and probably hummus or something.
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