TWiV reviews universal vaccine initiative at NIAID, shut down of the Integrated Research Facility at Ft. Detrick, modeling the reemergence of infectious diseases as vaccination rates drop, and bacterial outer membrane vesicles bound to bacteriophages modulate neutrophil responses to bacterial infection.
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Links for this episode
- Support science education at MicrobeTV
- ASV 2025
- Paul has Measles (YouTube, virology blog)
- Universal vaccine project (NIAID, CIDRAP)
- Measles update (US, Texas)
- Integrated Research Lab closed (Telegraph)
- Modeling reemergence of infectious diseases (JAMA)
- Outer membrane vesicles attached to phage (Front Cell Inf Micro)
- Pf phage review (Front Immunol)
- Letters read on TWiV 1215
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Weekly Picks
Alan – A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit (and here’s my review of it)
Jolene – Virology course student communication projects, Spring 2025
Vincent – Vaccine Education Center
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees
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