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TWiV 1207 Taking a shot at dementia 🧠 TWiV notes the passing of Klaus Conzelmann, then reviews reverse-zoonoses of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza A viruses & evolution in United States swine, and reduction in dementia incidence in recipients of Zostavax. 📺 bit.ly/43J06Ue

A story about Galileo shows that no matter how often RFK Jr. spews misinformation & lies, and how many sycophants, reporters, fringe scientists, congressmen & social media followers rise to support him, in the end scientific truths win out. 📺 bit.ly/3YuRGwd

TWiV reviews RFK Jr’s odd comments on ‘single antigen’ vaccines & his September deadline for understanding why autism has increased, identification of broadly neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies against norovirus & more. 📺 bit.ly/4ct7plb

The President’s wife is a European immigrant. Both parents of the Secretary of State are Caribbean immigrants. Both parents of the FBI Director and the richest person on the World are African immigrants. And 1/3 of the 320 American Nobel Prizes in science have gone to immigrants.

Hi! I'm autistic! I'm a dual MD/PhD student. I will be applying to residency this year. I pay taxes. I've held multiple jobs. I'm a published author. I just paid my taxes for the 10th year! I played soccer as a kid and competitively swam. We exist💕 stop generalizing

The recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections 2025 was a moving tribute to the importance of HIV research and efforts to eradicate HIV globally. Presentations are now up online. It was a great honor to deliver the Fields Lecture! croiwebcasts.org/console/player…

RFK Jr. says it’s time to give infectious diseases a break and focus solely on chronic diseases, but will they give us a break? This video is based on Dr. Offit’s substack post, “Giving Infectious Diseases a Break.” 📺 bit.ly/4lF9PBn

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Congrats to Marie Seleme, Aradhana Kasimsetty and the team on their report of effective methods for increasing expression from AAV vectors by blocking SUMOylation. Effective boosting by treatment with an inhibitor presently under investigation in humans! (PMID: 40263936)

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Mark your calendars! Please join us for the annual -Neal Nathanson Lecture- Wednesday 4/30/25 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Bruce Walker, MD "HIV as a model for immune control and immune failure: Insights from Africa" ragoninstitute.org/bruce-d-walker/

The Felon-in-Chief really, really, REALLY hates this Fox graphic. So whatever you do, don’t share it anywhere. 😈

Since 1945, American Universities have been envied worldwide for their Government-funded research. Hard to justify via corporate R&D, frontier science is vital to our long-term health, wealth, & security. To withhold such funding is to amputate the engines that Make America Great

We are now approaching 900 official cases of measles This is already the 2nd worst measles outbreak of the 21st century — and we are only in April 94 hospitalized (mostly kids) 3 dead Our leaders need to be clear and unequivocal about how to end this: Vaccines

Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello deplore the US’s withdrawal from the global health community for pandemic preparedness, RFK’s autism registry, yellow fever outbreak in Colombia, world immunization week, & more. 📺 bit.ly/3EB76Zg

Thanks so much to Bruce Walker for the moving talk on HIV immunology and mitigating AIDS in Africa. It is heartbreaking that federal cuts to PEPFAR over the next four years are projected to result in 4 million additional deaths and 6 million additional infections (UNAIDS).

One boy was vaccinated The other was not Guess which one is which?

Excited about the seminar from Melissa Smith at noon today. Long read sequencing applied to problems in microbiology and immunology. Please join us!

No it doesn't "make sense" Polio vaccine doesn't cause cancer It prevents polio More insane anti vaccine ranting from HHS Secretary RFK Jr

Contrats to Saira, Kushol and the team on an important publication on HIV integrase structure and inhbitor resistance. Escape from allosteric inhibitors is associated with notable conformational changes. PMID: 40409709

In case you were wondering why research is important: check out the song from Mags McCarthy and Bruce Levine on saving lives with novel cancer therapy: youtube.com/watch?v=dkOrbj…