TWiV 1327: Influenza viruses in the MIST

This Week in Virology

May 31, 2026•2 hr•Ep. 1327

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TWiV explains research on human influenza virus transmission that reveals heterogeneous expulsion of infectious virus into air, and how gut bacteriophages dictate inflammation heterogeneity through tuning the phage-bacteria-sphingosine-intestine axis in Crohn's disease.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Jolene Ra m sey

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NIH ousts infectious-disease leaders (Nature)
Measles deaths in Bangladesh (npr)
Russel Vought is going to destroy American science (Elizabeth Ginexi)
Heterogeneous expulsion of infectious influenza virus into air (Cell)
Gut phages and Crohn's disease (Cell Host Microbe)
MIST device (Emory)
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Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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