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TWiV 1353: Phage bet-hedging and EBV antibodies
· 1 h 52 min · Episode 1353
Episode TWiV 1353: Phage bet-hedging and EBV antibodies
TWiV explores how bacteriophages enable bet-hedge against bacterial immune defenses, and how transgenic mice engineered to produce human antibodies yielded potent anti-EBV candidates targeting gp350 and gp42, a promising step toward Epstein-Barr therapeutics.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Jolene Ramsey
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• Support science education at MicrobeTV • Dolly Parton, and advocate for science (Nature) • Phage bet-hedging (Nat Micro) • EBV monoclonal antibodies (Cell Rep Med) • Letters read on TWiV 1353 • Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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Links in the notes 16
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello
- https://mgm.ufl.edu/profile/condit-rich/
- https://bbarkerdrew.com/
- https://ramseylab.vercel.app/
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-virology/id1176779065
- https://www.microbe.tv/contribute
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02676-1
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-026-02445-w
- https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(26)00035-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666379126000352%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
- https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1349-letters/
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/life-on-earth-emerged-twice-study/
- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260823.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjbSWebA3Ko
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
- https://youtu.be/OU6lpOf7Wjc?si=kQysC_DqPuliy7ff
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