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This Week in Virology

by Vincent Racaniello

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This Week in Virology is a netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick.

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  • Ancient Viral Sword and Shield

    September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 46 min

    TWiV 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…

  • Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

    September 26, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    In 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…

  • SSPE, the Long Shadow of Measles

    September 20, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    Roberto 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…

  • Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

    September 19, 2026 · 54 min

    In 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…

  • Furin, Naturally with Paul Bieinasz

    September 13, 2026 · 1 hr 44 min

    Paul Bieniasz joins TWiV to discuss his lab’s discovery that the coronavirus nuclease NSP15 cuts viral RNA into oligonucleotides that are reinserted elsewhere in the viral RNA, generating insertion mutations at a frequency above 10⁻³ per…

  • Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

    September 12, 2026 · 47 min

    In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello delve into dengue virus infections in Florida, recent human rabies infections in the US, proposed changes in biomedical funding including “converting” the Department of…

  • Four billion years of AI training data

    September 6, 2026 · 1 hr 38 min

    TWiV reviews a landmark paper reporting the first generative design of complete viral genomes using AI, producing 16 viable bacteriophages that overcame antibiotic-resistant bacteria where natural phages could not, and a study suggesting…

  • Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

    September 5, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello remember Dolly Parton and her patronage of science, especially development of the COVID-19 vaccines, if the shingles vaccine protect against cardiovascular events as well…