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This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Following in the path of his successful shows 'This Week in Virology' (TWiV) and 'This Week in Parasitism' (TWiP), Racaniello and guests produce an informal yet informative conversation about microbes which is accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background.
TWiV 679: Mink, mutation, and myocytes
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By Vincent Racaniello. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.
Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, Slovlakia’s plan to test all adults for SARS-CoV-2 infection, viral variants arising in Danish mink and their potential threat to humans, why it is unethical to carry out challenge trials, Nipah virus dynamics in bats and spillovers into humans, and direct cardiac damage by spike-mediated cardiomyocyte fusion.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne BarkerGuests: Daniel Griffin and Amy Rosenfeld
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Links for this episode- Denmark will cull mink (Reuters)
- State Serum Institute statement in Danish
- Unethical to use SARS-CoV-2 human challenge studies (PNAS)
- Nipah virus dynamics in bats (PNAS)
- Spike-mediated cardiomyocyte fusion (ResearchSquare)
- SARS-CoV-2 infects engineered heart tissues (bioRxiv)
- You cannot lock up all risks groups (Das Coronavirus)
- Letters read on TWiV 679
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Dickson – CNN News Amy – I voted and Grace for President Alan – The Story of More by Hope Jahren Rich – OSIRIS-REx and 101955 Bennu Vincent – The Vexed Muddler
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
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