TWiV 881: 50 ways to zap your virus

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 112 minutes

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TWiV describes the identification of a monoclonal antibody that provides broad protection against a variety of hantaviruses, and development of an oral remdesivir-like antiviral that ameliorates viral disease in mice. 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 Monoclonal antibody provides broad hantavirus protection (Sci Transl Med) Prometheus Project (TWiV 578) Oral antiviral related to Remdesivir (Sci Transl Med) Letters read on TWiV 881 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – World’s tallest wooden building Amy – Virus hunter in the Wuhan market Rich – WorldPop (example) Vincent – Karst Stone Paper Listener Picks Neva – Can we vaccinate against EBV? and Paul Sutter reading a science paper 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.
0:10.4	From micro TV, this is twiv this week in virology episode 881 recorded on March 25th, 2022.
0:22.1	I'm Vincent Drakin yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:26.5	Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon de Pomme, a little cloudy out there, a little
0:34.2	coolish out there. Storm coming up on the weekend, I think that's the prediction at least,
0:40.4	typical March weather. 14c and partly cloudy is a pretty nice day out there. Also joining us
0:46.0	from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit. Hi, everybody. It's 84 degrees, not a cloud in this guy. It was
0:56.6	high 40s this morning. It is just absolutely glorious. The viruses are blooming. The blue
1:06.0	bonnet are coming up, even in our yard. The red buds are blooming. We are getting into spring here.
1:13.2	This is the nicest time of year in Texas, I think. So Rich, when it's 40 in the morning and then 80,
1:21.2	what do you do with the air conditioning? Is it not on yet? No, it won't be on for a while. We're
1:27.7	pretty conservative with the air conditioning. We don't turn it on until it's absolutely necessary.
1:33.3	Is the windows open? When those are open right now, my unfortunately, in order to
1:39.6	discourage Tinkerbell, I have to close the blinds while I'm recording. My poor cat is sitting
1:49.4	there because he loves it with the windows open. He's sitting here putting his nose through the,
1:55.6	trying to get his nose through the slats and the blinds. Also joining us from New York, Amy Rosenfeld.
2:01.2	Hello. How are you? What Dixon calls the power red sweater? The power red sweater.
2:07.1	Yes, but it's really, it's got her game on. She's got a game on. Yeah, but it's really tangerines.
2:13.2	I was going to say I'm not good at colors, but that's not red. No, it's tangerine. I like orange.
2:20.1	Glad to hear it. So my exciting news is that this week below the incubator on the,
2:25.7	on the seventh avenue right below, a new bagel store opened. Oh, nice. I got it this subway and
2:32.8	it's, oh, I'm going to get some bagels for the weekend. If they're over seven different kinds,
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