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This Week in Microbiology
From Vincent Racaniello
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This Week in Virology
by Vincent Racaniello
Today: #88 in Science on our combined chart.
Today: #129 in Science, Canada on our combined chart.
Today: #162 in Science, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #109 in Science, New Zealand on our combined chart.
Today: #105 in Science, Ireland on our combined chart.
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Episode releases
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Castbox |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27 | #88 | #62 | — | #58 |
| Oct 26 | #58 | #31 | #31 | #31 |
| Oct 25 | #66 | #41 | — | #58 |
| Oct 24 | #144 | #130 | — | — |
| Oct 23 | #141 | #125 | — | — |
| Oct 22 | #130 | #114 | — | — |
| Oct 21 | #126 | #110 | — | — |
| Oct 20 | #94 | #70 | — | #62 |
| Oct 19 | #65 | #40 | #37 | #36 |
| Oct 18 | #69 | #42 | — | #66 |
| Oct 17 | #195 | #177 | — | — |
| Oct 16 | #181 | #165 | — | — |
| Oct 15 | #128 | #108 | — | — |
| Oct 14 | #109 | #90 | — | #90 |
Latest episodes
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Florida Model Makes Measles Great Again
October 25, 2026 · 1 hr 57 minTWiV explains projected effects of removing school-entry vaccination requirements on measles transmission in Florida and evidence that HLA class I escape drives the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in human populations. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello…
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Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
October 24, 2026 · 55 minIn his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are discouraged by the continuous attack on vaccines especially the birth dose of the hepatitis B virus vaccine, effects of the 2026 changes in immunization schedule, the…
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Turning Off Hepatitis B Virus Without Cutting its DNA
October 18, 2026 · 1 hr 53 minTWiV explains a study which shows that influenza A virus infection induces immune dysregulation in the placenta and fetus without vertical transmission in nonhuman primates, and development of an epigenetic silencer therapy to…
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Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
October 17, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minIn his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are crestfallen to learn of the 6th measles death in Pennsylvania and more than 9000 deaths from Ebola, an enterovirus/Coxsackievirus outbreak at the University of…
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Andes Virus Up Close
October 11, 2026 · 57 minTWiV travels to Porto, Portugal for the annual meeting of the European Society for Clinical Virology, where he speaks with Catherine and Corinne about their work on the Andes virus outbreak on the MV Hondius. Host: Vincent Racaniello…
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Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
October 10, 2026 · 1 hr 14 minIn his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss their continuing struggle to understand the ongoing outbreak of cyclospora, decimation of US public health including 30% or greater loss of personnel from the…
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A Cauldron of Bats
October 4, 2026 · 1 hr 54 minTWiV explains a study testing how 16 hypothesized social and environmental drivers impact disease outbreaks, concluding that infectious disease spillover and emergence are multi-causal, and that no one-size-fits-all strategy can prevent…
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Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
October 3, 2026 · 54 minIn his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello continue their ongoing exasperation over 5 deaths in Pennsylvania associated with measles infections, the absurdity of RFK Jr.’s statement that AI is better informed than…
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Ancient Viral Sword and Shield
September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 46 minTWiV explains discovery of a previously unknown mechanism of RNA-guided DNA recognition for genetic control that possibly predates the emergence of CRISPR pathways, and the possibility that Alzheimer’s Disease neuropathology evolved as a…
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Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
September 26, 2026 · 1 hr 0 minIn his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello frustration continues over the increasing number of measles infections, Kennedy’s undermining of vaccines, perpetuation of autism- vaccine, autism-tylenol myths, an…
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SSPE, the Long Shadow of Measles
September 20, 2026 · 1 hr 10 minRoberto Cattaneo and Kalpana Yadav join TWiV at the 2026 meeting of the American Society for Virology to discuss how the absence of measles virus receptors in the brain selects for hyperfusogenic variants that spread neuron-to-neuron and…
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Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
September 19, 2026 · 54 minIn his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are angered by the continuous reporting of measles deaths in the US and around the world, the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, changes in reporting of virus infection and…
About the show
TWiV is a weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Professors Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler and science writer Alan Dove and guests deconstruct viruses, how they cause illness, and dissect the latest research.