TWiV 818: Thor's hammer
Episode description
The TWiVers review phase 3 efficacy and safety results for the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, effects on the neonatal immune system caused by maternal infection with SARS-CoV-2, and NHC, the metabolite of molnupiravir, causes mutations in cellular DNA.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode- Efficacy and safety of Novavax vaccine (medRxiv)
- A floret of spikes with Matt Frieman (TWiV 729)
- Maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection affects neonatal immunity (Nat Immunol)
- NHC is mutagenic in mammalian cells (J Inf Dis)
- Coding for catastrophe (Nat Struct Mol Biol)
- Molnupiravir development (Nature)
- Letters read on TWiV 818
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Dickson – John Clease
Brianne – Astronomy Picture of the Day: Swirl in the Southern Sky
Kathy – Lise Meitner Statue is at the Humboldt University
Rich – Google has the cleanest cloud. Now it’s helping other companies go green
Vincent – Discovery of reverse transcriptase by Baltimore and Temin
Sam – Air Travel Packing List
Justin – PFAS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and EPA targets greenhouse emissions
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees
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