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TWiV 1299: Moth balls and blood clots

TWiV 1299: Moth balls and blood clots

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TWiV explains how vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia develops from antibodies to adenovirus and somatic hypermutation, and castration by a viral protein tyrosine phosphatase that targets a host cell cycle checkpoint protein.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

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  • Support science education at MicrobeTV
  • Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email)
  • US repeals environmental endangerment finding (Nature)
  • Environmental groups sue EPA (Guardian)
  • NIAID to drop pandemic preparedness and biodefense (Nature)
  • FDA backpedals on Moderna mRNA rejection (npr)
  • Mechanism of VITT (NEJM)
  • Parasitc castration by a wasp virus protein (PNAS)
  • Polydnaviruses (PloS Path)
  • Letters read on TWiV 1299
  • Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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