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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 10/21/26 at 8pm Eastern US. 📺 bit.ly/4hZQ4F6
Today! ⏰ TWiEVO #131 Livestream 〰️ Nels and Vincent livestream an episode of This Week in Evolution on Wednesday, October 21 at 1pm Eastern. Paper to be discussed: “Genetic code expansion enables plant-directed control of bacterial activity.” 📺 bit.ly/3TLYAOM
At a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) conference, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will free Americans from having to “trust the experts” about medical advice. 📺 bit.ly/4jyfRp6
Tulika Singh joins Immune at AAI2026 to talk about the international partnerships that advance research on immunity to emerging flaviviruses and her research on the impact of prior Zika virus infection on susceptibility to Dengue virus disease. 📺 bit.ly/4zCyHQu
A study shows influenza A virus infection induces immune dysregulation in placenta & fetus w/out vertical transmission in nonhuman primates, & development of an epigenetic silencer therapy to transcriptionally inactivate viral DNA in chronic hepatitis B. 📺bit.ly/4z2w0Ik
Daniel & Vincent discuss 6th measles death in Pennsylvania, more than 9,000 deaths from Ebola, an enterovirus/Coxsackievirus outbreak at the University of Pennsylvania, decimation of the HIV services following withdrawal of PEPFAR and USAID, & more. 📺 bit.ly/4Bbn04L
TWiP 290: What's Biting You at Night? 🐓 TWiP solves the case of the patient who developed an intensely itchy, red papular rash after close contact with chickens and their bedding, where small mites were found. 📺 bit.ly/47XNRE8
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 10/14/26 at 8pm eastern US. 📺 bit.ly/4B1gOMZ
Beyond the Noise #113 ⛪️ Are religious exemptions to vaccination religious, in that religion takes care of the health and well-being of children? This video is based on Paul Offit’s column on Substack entitled “Irreligious Acts.” 📺 bit.ly/3TVbLgi
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Planning for the future of PWB. 🌎 This past week, our President, Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD, and Directors, Charles “Chuck” Knirsch, MD, MPH and Vincent Racaniello, PhD, got together at Hayden Backcountry Lodge in Colorado to strategize and plan for the next 10 years of Parasites Without Borders.
The lodge is located in the Richmond Basin above Ouray, Colorado and it proved the perfect recess from the hustle and bustle of New York City. We can’t wait to share with you all what we’ve been working on!
TWiV 1365: Andes Virus Up Close 🦠 TWiV travels to Porto, Portugal for the annual meeting of the European Society for Clinical Virology, where he speaks with Catherine and Corinne about their work on the Andes virus outbreak on the MV Hondius. 📺 bit.ly/4ig6k4E
Daniel & Vincent discuss their continuing struggle to understand the ongoing outbreak of cyclospora, decimation of US public health including 30% or greater loss of personnel from the CDC, continuing measles outbreaks here and abroad, and more. 📺 bit.ly/4icPrIe
Beyond the Noise 112: The One Word RFK Jr. Won’t Say About the MMR Vaccine 🤫 Under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership, public health officials are hesitant to say that the MMR vaccine is safe. 📺 bit.ly/4edfn3W
TWiV explains an analysis of Myotis bats, which shows that their remarkable longevity and immunity are linked through pleiotropic adaptations to viruses and aging-related disease. 📺 bit.ly/4hLyYcN
Daniel & Vincent discuss the 5 deaths in Pennsylvania associated with measles infections, absurdity of RFK Jr.’s statement that AI is better informed than physicians, more deaths by raw milk products, spread of dengue virus in Florida, & more. 📺 bit.ly/4jAM4vI
TWiP 289: Dogs, Parasites, and an Exhausted Immune System 🐾 TWiP explains a single-cell analysis of immune cells in the blood of dogs with canine leishmaniosis, providing a detailed picture of how the immune response changes as the disease progresses. 📺 bit.ly/4hZdE4D
Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought has spent most of the past two years attempting to destroy federal research funding in various ways, and in some cases with great success. 📺 bit.ly/4xUrLwQ
Immune tackles papers on the breadth of human B cell responses following mRNA vaccination & on the role of mitochondria and reactive oxygen species in plasma B cell maintenance. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Stephanie Langel & Brianne Barker. 📺 bit.ly/4ypYStH
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 9/30/26 at 8pm Eastern US. 📺 bit.ly/4zaI9uk
Jason Shepherd joins TWiN to discuss the work in his lab showing that Arc protein plays a role in intercellular transmission of tau protein, which becomes hyperphosphorylated and misfolded, a major histopathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. 📺 bit.ly/3Tq6tJr
