TWiV 878: Shape matters sometimes

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2022

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

TWiV revisits chronic wasting disease of cervids and the ability of the prions to infect meadow voles and raccoons, and the suggestion that stochastic assembly of influenza virus particles may play a role in phenotypic diversity. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Amy Rosenfeld Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode CWD in meadow voles and raccoons (Emerg Inf Dis) Unusual infectious agents (Virology Live) Low fidelity influenza virus assembly (Cell) Shape-shifting viruses (TWiV 743) From variolous effluvia to VLPs (TWiV 170) A pox on your horse (TWiV 478) Letters read on TWiV 878 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – James Webb Space Telescope and Nature Conservancy Photo Contest Amy – A new strategy for staying one step ahead of the virus Rich – Searching for the origin of the smallpox vaccine: Edward Jenner and his little-known horsepox hypothesis Vincent – Blacktail Studio Listener Picks Richard – Water Structure and Science 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.
0:10.3	From micro TV, this is twiv this week in virology episode 878 to recorded on March 18th, 2022.
0:21.2	I'm Vincent Racken-Ello and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:25.5	Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixandet-Pomye.
0:30.4	Hello, there are Vincent and everybody else. I don't have to look out the window to tell you
0:36.1	what kind of day it is. It's probably the best day of the year so far. It's about 70 degrees.
0:42.4	There's a light breeze. I wish this podcast were an outdoor podcast today. They'd sit around and
0:48.9	share drinks and stories and stuff like this, but here it is and it's actually quite wonderful out there.
0:57.3	It's hard to say that winter is over. No, I wouldn't go that far. It's snowed like hell yesterday.
1:03.6	We had snow yesterday in Fort Lee, New Jersey, off and on all day long.
1:08.8	Today it goes up to 70. It's here at rain. Well, it rained here too and then the sun came
1:15.4	ahead and another front came through. It was quite dramatic actually.
1:19.3	Also joining us from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
1:22.4	Hi, everybody. 65 degrees is sunny and very windy. I think winter is over.
1:28.8	That is, I don't anticipate another freeze. It would be it's improbable at this point.
1:36.4	This is actually potentially the nicest time of the year before it gets really hot.
1:40.4	We got another couple of months here maybe.
1:43.1	Yeah, Michael Warby said we're leaving the 70s behind after today mostly.
1:47.4	Yeah, those Arizona's about 10 degrees ahead of us.
1:51.3	Also joining us from New York, Amy Rosenfeld. Hello, Amy.
1:56.1	Hello, how are you? How's the weather up there?
2:00.0	It's fine. It's blue skies, clouds. I'm just trying to figure out where the snow was yesterday
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