TWiP #11 - One times three million

<p>TWiP travels to Toronto, CA for the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conference where they meet up with Martin Grobusch to discuss his career and his work.</p> <p>Hosts: <a title="" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello"><strong>Vincent Raca ... Show More

TWiP discusses a 41-year long human infection with Schistosoma mansoni, and CRISPR screens that reveal genes essential for Cryptosporidium survival in the host intestine. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podca ... Show More

TWiP solves the case about the female who traveled to Brazil and upon returning home felt movements under her scalp on the back of her head, and present another case for your solving, a man with abnormal brain MRI. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Gu ... Show More

<p>Hosts: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello" target="_blank">Vincent Racaniello</a>, <a href="http://www.verticalfarm.com" target="_blank">Dickson Despommier</a>, <a href="http://turbidplaque.com" target="_blank">Alan Dove</a>, <a href="http://www.mgm.ufl.e ... Show More

<p>In this episode I cover malaria.<br/><br/>If you want to follow along with written notes on malaria go to <a href='http://zerotofinals.com/malaria'>http://zerotofinals.com/malaria</a> or the infectious diseases section in the Zero to Finals medicine book.<br/><br/>This episode ... Show More

In this episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we caught up with Elena Gomez-Diaz from the Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine López-Neyra at the Spanish National Research Council. She share with us her work on the Epigenetics in Human Malaria Parasites. Elena Gómez-Díaz and h ... Show More

Scientists have been trying to figure out how to eradicate malaria for decades. Globally, a child under the age of five dies from the disease every two minutes, and even for kids who do survive there can be long term complications. A big breakthrough finally came in October when ... Show More

<p>Chadi and Caroline join TWiV to describe the potential epidemiological and evolutionary impacts of vaccine nationalism, and their modeling which emphasizes the importance of rapid equitable vaccine distribution for global control of the pandemic.</p> <p>Hosts: <a href= "http:/ ... Show More

<p>Playing out against the backdrop of a global pandemic (including recent massive surges in regions around the world) is the <a href="https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-04-23-malaria-vaccine-becomes-first-achieve-who-specified-75-efficacy-goal" target="_blank">news that came out</a> ... Show More

In today’s podcast, Alan Kasujja sits down with award-winning South African health practitioner professor Lucille Blumberg. She explains why she thinks she was recognized for her efforts in fighting malaria. She also tells our presenter why thousands of people across the African ... Show More

<p>Vincent and Dick converse about warfare preventing immunization of 120,000 children in Afghanistan, bone marrow transplant curing AIDS patient, Google tracking flu, measles outbreak in Gibraltar, using viruses to make batteries, and small mosquitoes and Dengue.</p> <p><a on ... Show More

<p>The immu-knowledge-ists deconstruct the holy grail of oncologists, cancer immunotherapy, and the exciting development of CAR T cells and how they work.</p> <p>Hosts: <a href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vincent Racaniello</a ... Show More