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

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• 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!

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