TWiV 1279: Let hepatitis b
Update: 2025-12-14
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TWiV reviews considerations and perspectives on phage therapy, and the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of hepatitis b virus.
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- Support science education at MicrobeTV
- Immune 100 live at the Incubator
- ASV 2026
- WHO global expert committee: no link between vaccines and autism (News-Medical)
- Considerations on phage therapy (Nat Comm)
- What is TATFAR? (CDC)
- History of phage therapy (one, two) JAMA
- Viruses that (can) make you well (TWiV 1153)
- The InVinceable TWiV (TWiV 145)
- Blumberg Nobel Lecture 1976
- Particles associated with Australia antigen in patients (Nature)
- HBV vaccination remains vital for saving lives (Hep B Foundation)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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