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This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

Vincent, Microbe, Medicine, Microbiology, Racaniello, Infection, Virus, Virology, Pathogen, Infectious, Twiv, Science & Medicine

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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TWiV covers a MacArthur Award for Jason McLellan, 2025 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, first treatment for Huntington’s Disease, structure of an archael dsDNA virus from head to tail, and discovery of a Legionella phage that explains a determinant of human disease. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Jolene Ramsey Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Jason McLellan wins MacArthur Award (NPR) 2025 Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine (Nobel Prizes) Huntington Disease treatment (BBC) Structure of archaeal tailed virus (Sci Adv) Discovery of Legionella phage (Sci Adv) Microbe of the Month: Legionella (Trends Micro) Letters read on TWiV 1261 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Alan – Specimen of the last female Great Auk finally identified. Jolene – Ribosome studio on IG Vincent – Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected] Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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0:00.0	This Week in Virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:10.3	From MicrobTV, this is Twiv. This week in Virology, episode 1261, recorded on October 10, 2025.
0:22.8	I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast, All About Viruses.
0:28.8	Joining me today from College Station, Texas, Jolene Ramsey.
0:34.8	Ola, it's good to be here.
0:36.4	It's a nice, warm, Texas fall day, only 85 degrees Fahrenheit and 29 degrees Celsius.
0:46.0	Here, it's 17C, and it's cloudy.
0:49.6	We are expecting nor'easters this weekend.
0:53.2	It's going to rain Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
0:57.9	Also joining us from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove. Good to be here. It's just a couple of degrees
1:04.1	short, just a degree short of a palindrome here. It's 59 Fahrenheit 15C. And we are, got beautiful weather today, beautiful fall, weather the leaves are just starting to change.
1:18.0	A couple of weeks we'll get peak foliage.
1:21.0	And yeah, same northeaster is coming through here.
1:23.5	We're far enough inland that it usually doesn't slam us too hard, but we'll see.
1:27.2	We're not too far from the water. Yeah. Here in New York, the water's right. No, no, it's, you're in a harbor city. Haba. Haba, isn't that how they say to your state? Yeah, Boston Hava. But Springfield is, Springfield is way out of it. It's way out. Yeah, you don't have to worry. I just learned that the latest Mac OS has widgets.
1:48.1	You can put the weather on your desktop.
1:50.7	Oh.
1:51.8	You know, you're great.
1:52.8	So the widget, which other OS is a new thing?
1:55.8	Yeah, it's apparently a new thing.
1:56.9	Well, I just discovered it.
1:59.5	Oh, MacOS, even back when I was using it a decade ago, it had widgets.
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