TWiV 1171: The born immunity
Description
TWiV reviews susceptibility to vaccine-preventable infections in asylum seekers, the economic power of vaccines, French university tries to bury its investigation of a faculty member’s ethical lapses, transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in New Zealand before and after COVID-19, and a germ line encoded antibody that recognizes a broad array of enveloped viruses.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker
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- Susceptibility to infections in asylum seekers (NEJM)
- RSV hospitalization in adults (JAMA Net Open)
- Ethics failings at French university (Science)
- RSV transmission in New Zealand (Nat Commun)
- Glycan reactive IgM binds multiple viruses (SciImmunol)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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Brianne – Publication of Updated Human Cell Atlas
Rich – Astroscale
Alan – E3 ubiquitin ligase game, and an article about its origin
Vincent – In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain
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Ryan – A Dangerous Moment
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees
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