AI builds better viruses

TWiV reviews global measles outbreaks, toilet-generated aerosols that spread viruses, highly effective prevention of invasive cervical cancer by HPV vaccination, and design of improved adenovirus-associated viral vectors using machine learning.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• MicrobeTV store at Cafepress
• Become a member of ASV (asv.org)
• Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf)
• The New City by Dickson Despommier
• Jay Nelson obituary
• Measles outbreak in Europe and Central Asia (UNICEF)
• Closing the toilet lid doesn’t reduce virus aerosols (Am J Inf Control)
• NASA’s ingenuity helicopter mission ends (NASA)
• HPV vaccine prevents invasive cervical cancer (J NCI)
• Designing AAV vectors with machine learning (Sci Adv)
• Letters read on TWiV 1083
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Weekly Picks

Dickson – Asian girl building a life building a fence to protect a bamboo house
Rich – Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades by Rebecca Renner
Alan – Strange Bedfellows, by Ina Park
Vincent – Star and Sphere kit – try the main page too

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv