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Podcast: This Week in Virology
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TWiV 796: The vary hungry spike with Paul and Theodora

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 01:53:40
Publish Date: 2021-08-22 04:00:00
Description:

Paul and Theodora return to TWiV to explain their research on determining the number of neutralizing epitopes on the SARS-CoV-2 spike that are recognized by antibodies, and engineering of a polymutant spike with twenty amino acid changes that demonstrates the high genetic barrier to escape from convalescent serum.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

Guests: Paul Bieniasz and Theodora Hatiziiouannou

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

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