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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Castbox |
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| Oct 5 | #66 | #42 | #37 | #41 |
| Oct 4 | #60 | #37 | #49 | #37 |
| Oct 3 | #85 | #58 | — | — |
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.
Latest episodes
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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…
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Furin, Naturally with Paul Bieinasz
September 13, 2026 · 1 hr 44 minPaul 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…
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Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
September 12, 2026 · 47 minIn 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…