TWiV 875: Animal house

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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TWiV discusses the virome of game animals in China, and the finding that binding of sarbecoviruses to ACE2 is an ancestral and evolvable trait. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Amy Rosenfeld Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode WHO declaration of COVID-19 pandemic Virome of China game animals (Cell) ACE2 binding is ancestral and evolvable (Nature) Letters read on TWiV 875 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Ship found at the bottom of the sea Amy – Vaccinating kids has never been easy Vincent – State data and CDC data on children and COVID-19 Listener Picks Andrew – Books by Randall Munroe Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

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0:00.0	This week in virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:10.7	From microbe TV, this is TWIV, this week in virology, episode 875 recorded on March 11, 2022.
0:22.2	I'm Vincent Racken Yellow, and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:27.5	Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon, Daypalmye.
0:33.2	Hello everybody, and as Richard say, hello everybody, but I said that anyway.
0:39.9	It's a beautiful day out today. It's actually very, very deceiving, because we know what's
0:48.1	happening tomorrow. There's an enormous blow-up storm that's heading out way tomorrow.
0:53.6	And all those little crocuses that have already come up, they're going to croak.
0:58.0	But it's a beautiful day. You really springed out there right now, and it's not even springing out.
1:02.0	Also joining us from New York, Amy Rosenfeld.
1:05.5	Hello, how are you? I saw you this morning. You can't ask me that.
1:10.1	I was asking Dixon. I was been nice. Oh, sorry. I see you all the time, Dixon's a special treat.
1:16.4	Now that he doesn't come. So are crocuses called crocuses? Because then they croak? Well, not really.
1:25.6	You know, their main contribution to our lives are besides the beauty. That's where
1:34.0	it's that I've blocked on the name of the spice. They take the stamen's out, and that's the
1:39.6	saffron. Taferon? They do saffron, and they are largely from Spain, and they each crocus
1:47.5	matures at a different time. So they have to pick it every day until it's finished.
1:52.5	Very expensive saffron. It's extremely expensive. But it's what makes pae good.
1:58.2	Is that right? It is true. Tell me about this storm, Dixon. What's happening?
2:04.0	It's supposed to be rain, sleep, and snow tomorrow, and then Sunday, beautiful again.
2:08.0	How much snow are we going to get? Not much. I mean enough to annoy you.
2:12.8	Starting when? It's supposed to start raining tonight, and then by tomorrow it's supposed to
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