TWiV 1331: A drug for cervical cancer

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2026

⏱️ 118 minutes

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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 restore p53 function and suppress growth of HPV-driven tumors in vivo. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Angela Mingarelli 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) Letter on Baric funding ban (Science, scroll to bottom) New political jobs at science agencies (Science) Ebola sitrep (WHO) Influenza H5N1 infection of dairy cows (Nat Comm) Drug for cervical cancer (PNAS) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Picks of the Week Angela – SpaceX Brianne – Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated Rich – “Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys” by Michael Collins Vincent – NTSB Reveals What Really Happened to United 169 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.
0:10.4	From MicrowTV, this is Twiv.
0:12.8	This week in Virology, episode 1331 recorded on June 12, 2026.
0:22.3	I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast, All About Viruses.
0:27.8	Joining me today from Madison, New Jersey, Brianne Barker.
0:31.7	Hi, it's great to be here.
0:34.8	It is currently 91 Fahrenheit 33 33C, and very overcast. We've been in and out of
0:42.7	storms for the past day or so. So I'm expecting more storms soon. What is the temperature here?
0:51.0	New York, 33 and cloudy. It's pretty humid. It is very
0:55.8	humid. Like Wednesday, it was not humid at all. And then suddenly... I know. Yesterday was so
1:01.3	humid and today as well. Also joining us from Montreal, Canada, Angela Mingarelli.
1:08.2	Hello, everyone. I mean, for once, I mean, it's still the coldest where I am, but it's still hot. It is 87 Fahrenheit, which is 30 degrees Celsius, which for us is very hot. And also really muggy. I feel like Brianne, Vincent, and I always have similar weather. Maybe I'm a few degrees lower, but yeah, it's like it's going to rain, but it's not raining, so it just feels kind of gross. But I prefer it to snow, so I'm not even going to complain. But you get hotter there than what it is now, right? Like July and August. Yeah, we'll go up to like 40 on rare occasion, 40 C. For last summer, I was there, right? It was really hot.
1:44.6	But that was like a heat wave.
1:45.7	It's not for that long.
1:47.0	Oh, really?
1:47.7	Okay.
1:48.1	No, it's not.
1:48.9	Thank God.
1:49.5	I prefer like 25.
1:51.9	It's a good temperature.
1:53.5	Also joining us from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
1:57.0	Howdy.
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