TWiV 1309: Maybe they're all cancer vaccines

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 106 minutes

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TWiV explains why human papillomavirus vaccine-induced immunity can block infection, unlike all other vaccines, and how respiratory viral infections such as COVID and influenza prime accelerated lung cancer growth. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email) J. Michael Bishop passes (NY Times) Vincent interviews JM Bishop (YouTube) David Botstein passes (NY Times) Post-attachment neutralization of HPV (npj vaccines) HPV vaccine blocks infection (Cancer Discov) Respiratory viral infections prime lung cancer growth (Cell) Respiratory virus infections awaken metastatic breast cancer (TWiV 1243 ) SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumors to immunotherapy (TWiV 1265) Letters read on TWiV 1309 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Project Hail Mary Rich – After a decade as a Yale hospital janitor, she is now a doctor there Alan – Scientific analysis of jokes in conference talks Vincent – Yuval Noah Harari: Why advanced societies fall for mass delusion Listener Pick Greg – Changes in Terrestrial N Budgets and Riverine Nitrate-N Yields from Mississippi River Basin Watersheds 2000 to 2020 Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv 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.
0:10.5	From MicrowTV, this is Twiv, this week in Virology, episode 1309 recorded on March 27, 2026.
0:24.1	I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast All About Viruses.
0:29.5	Joining me today from Madison, New Jersey, Breanne Barker.
0:33.4	Hi, great to be here.
0:35.7	In Madison, it is currently 50 degrees Fahrenheit and a bit cloudy, which is 10C, much cooler than it has been the last couple of days.
0:49.7	But at least it's not, you know, winter.
0:53.3	So you know, it's 10 C and cloudy here, too.
0:55.5	How about that? It's shocking. Tomorrow it's going to zero again. Mm-hmm. But yesterday it was like in the 70s. I know. So, you know. It's crazy stuff. Yeah, it's going to get back up into the 70s. It goes an and down. It goes 70s, like 10, 4, 11, 2.
1:14.8	I guess that's spring. Also joining us from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
1:19.3	Hi, everybody. 85 degrees, and I guess it's partly cloudy. And tomorrow,
1:31.5	we're still in sort of crazy season here.
1:33.5	Tomorrow's going to be a high of 69.
1:36.2	That still probably sounds pretty warm to you guys.
1:41.6	But we're, you know, anywhere from 70 to 90 degrees over the next 10 days.
1:46.7	And from western Massachusetts, Alan Dove.
1:47.7	Good to be here.
1:50.3	It's, I guess I've got the cold temperature today.
1:56.0	It's 42 Fahrenheit 6C and cloudy and a little breezy a front blew through.
2:00.3	And so we've got that and down below freezing again tonight.
2:04.0	Congratulations on your judge who told RFK Jr.
2:05.4	He can't do what he's been doing.
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