TWiV 1317: Dead shrimp walking

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

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 associated with aquatic virus zoonotic infection. 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) DNA virome varies with human genes and environments (Nature) Emerging eye infection from aquatic virus (Nat Micro) Letters read on TWiV 1317 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Wayback Machine: Internet Archive Rich – Grandparents for Vaccines Alan – On Writing by Stephen King Vincent – The Real Reason The Soviets Lost The Space Race! Listener Picks Ginny – Dr. Cal Your Science Pal 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.
0:10.3	From MicrobTV, this is Twiv. This week in Virology, episode 1317, recorded on April 24th, 2026. I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast,
0:27.4	All About Viruses. Joining me today from Madison, New Jersey, Brian Barker. Hi, great to be here.
0:36.3	It is a beautiful, sunny, bright blue sky, 68 Fahrenheit 20C, and just quite a nice day out there. I hope it keeps up.
0:51.3	It's the kind of day when the students say, can we have class outside, professor?
0:54.7	Yes, they do.
0:55.6	Well, you figure out how to show the slides.
0:57.9	So joining us from Austin, Texas.
1:01.2	Rich Condit.
1:02.2	Hi, everybody.
1:03.7	We have here 87 and sunny, little breezy.
1:13.1	Um, you know, I know where this is headed.
1:18.3	So, whatever, you know, it's a good day.
1:24.6	It's not humid there, is it?
1:26.4	No.
1:27.4	So it's a nice... Of course, I've been outside, really, today. I've been cramming for Twiv. Yeah, here we are all inside on a very nice day. Well, we can't do Twiv outside. It would be too noisy. Also joining us from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove. Good to be here in Western Mass.
1:44.8	It's also gorgeous, a little bit cooler.
1:46.8	It's 58 Fahrenheit, 14C, clear blue skies.
1:51.6	Very nice spring day.
1:53.4	14. Here, it's 21 and partly cloudy.
1:56.8	It's very nice out.
1:58.1	Back when I went out before for 10 minutes, it felt really good to breathe fresh air. Mm-hmm. It's very nice out. I went out before for 10 minutes. It felt really good to breathe fresh air.
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