This Week in Virology

One influenza infection, two patients

TWiV explains mRNA delivery of mosaic-8 pan-sarbecovirus RBD vaccines, and how toll-like receptor 7 alters the maternal immune landscape during influenza A infection to increase maternal and fetal morbidity,

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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  • Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email)
  • RFK Jr. driving vast inquiry into vaccines (NY Times)
  • Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school (Science)
  • Trump cuts CDC role in PEPFAR (Science)
  • Ralph Baric retires (The Assembly)
  • Baric to fight NIH funding ban (Science)
  • Ebola outbreak in DRC (npr)
  • Persistence of Andes virus RNA in human semen (Viruses)
  • mRNA delivery of mosaic-8 pan-sarbecovirus RBD vaccines (Cell Rep)
  • Science will break your heart (TWiV 920)
  • TLR7 and maternal and fetal morbidity during influenza (Sci Adv)
  • Letters read  on TWiV 1323
  • Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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