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🌍 Earth's Virology Professor 🎙 https://t.co/Z9gk3N2HaS host 🎥 https://t.co/GhFkgkbJBI

New York, USA Katılım Mart 2008
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Tonight! ⏰Join Vincent Racaniello for Office Hours to answer your questions about viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, Mpox virus, poliovirus, influenza virus, and more on this livestream on Wednesday 5/13/26 at 8pm Eastern US. 📺 @MicrobeTV" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@MicrobeTV
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Beyond the Noise #106: Collateral damage 〰️ A recent Instagram post by a pediatrician showed that the damage caused by the anti-vaccine movement isn’t limited to outbreaks of preventable infections. 📺 bit.ly/3RjnhAh
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TWiV explains how cross-reactive anti-prophage antibodies and bacterial heteroresistance is implicated in phage therapeutic failure, and how phages communicate across species to shape microbial ecosystems. 📺 bit.ly/4tppnMe
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Dr. Griffin & Vincent Racaniello discuss outbreak of Hantavirus on a cruise ship and its potential for person-person transmission, how cessation of funding for global health by Trump administration has compromised American health and well-being & more. 📺 bit.ly/4u0drBI
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Hantavirus on board with Prof. Vincent Racaniello ⚓️ A review of the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius, as of 6 May 2026, including what we know so far, background on hantaviruses in general, and analysis of the previous Andes virus outbreak. 📺 bit.ly/4eznMQl
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A group of pro-autocrat separatists advocated risking Canada’s $2 billion poultry export trade to prevent a flock of ostriches used to run an elaborate antibody-based wellness scam from being culled after being infected with H5N1 avian influenza virus. 📺bit.ly/4uBL64Q
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Tonight! ⏰Join Vincent Racaniello for Office Hours to answer your questions about viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, Mpox virus, poliovirus, influenza virus, and more on this livestream on Wednesday 5/6/26 at 8pm Eastern US. 📺 @MicrobeTV" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@MicrobeTV
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In this final session of Virology Lectures 2026, we describe different viruses used for gene therapy, how they work, and examples of their use for treating bacterial infections, vaccines, monogenic gene therapy, and viral oncotherapy. 📺 bit.ly/3P7nFRB
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Luke O’Neill recounts his role in discovering key components of the TLR signaling pathway, explains how pursuing unexpected research questions keeps him motivated, and reflects on his experiences as an entrepreneur founding biotech companies. 📺 bit.ly/3QPm8Am
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Beyond the Noise #105: The death of public health 🪦 Robert F, Kennedy Jr., the nation’s #1 public health official, isn’t interested in public health. This video is based on Dr. Offit’s Substack post, “The death of public health.” 📺 bit.ly/4ur51TM
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TWiV explains the emergence of vaccine-derived poliovirus strains from the novel oral polio vaccine in the Central African Republic, and the infection of spiral ganglion neurons in the inner ear by SARS-CoV-2, which may explain hearing loss in humans. 📺 bit.ly/4tgGnVd
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Dr. Griffin & Vincent note the uncertain future of the National Science Foundation amid shifting U.S. funding priorities and governance; the rise of China as a global research powerhouse; and more. 📺 bit.ly/4cN98ns
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TWiP 279: Tolling for hookworms 🪱 TWiP reviews a phase 2 clinical trial of a recombinant vaccine against N. americanus glutathione S-transferase-1, an enzyme that performs a crucial enzymatic step in hookworm blood feeding. 📺 bit.ly/4ehHrEk
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We talk about the remarkable viroids - small RNAs that encode no proteins - satellite viruses, and prions - infectious proteins that cause diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. 📺 bit.ly/42F9NkJ
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Tonight! ⏰ Join Vincent Racaniello for Office Hours to answer your questions about viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, Mpox virus, poliovirus, influenza virus, and more on this livestream on Wednesday 4/29/26 at 8pm Eastern US. 📺 @MicrobeTV" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@MicrobeTV
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TWiN explains the finding that activation of intracellular, not plasma membrane, serotonin 2A receptors is responsible for the plasticity-promoting and antidepressant-like properties of psychedelic compounds.📺 bit.ly/48vuKCf
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A tale of two pandemics 〰️ HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2, like all human viruses, came from Nature to infect humans. In this lecture we discuss the origins of HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 from wildlife, and the pathogenesis of the respective diseases AIDS and COVID-19. 📺bit.ly/4tCijwF
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George Stark reflects on his early training in biochemistry, and how he was eventually drawn to interferon signaling, where he helped establish core principles of the JAK–STAT pathway and uncovered interesting roles for interferon signaling in cancer. 📺 bit.ly/4vXWvNO
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Beyond the Noise #104〰️If you want to convince people not to vaccinate their children, you need to follow three simple rules, and no one has been more successful than our current Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 📺 bit.ly/41YleUs
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We discuss anthropogenic factors that drive virus emergence, 4 types of virus-host interactions, & descriptions of specific emerging virus infections including those caused by poliovirus, Nipah & Hendra viruses, Junin virus, Ebolavirus, & coronaviruses. 📺 bit.ly/4u5RpNG
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