TWiV 1121: SARS-CoV2 still didn't come from a lab
TWiV rebuts a recent opinion piece which falsely claims that the COVID-19 pandemic began in a lab (it began in Nature), followed by a discussion of Paride bacteriophage, which has the unsual property of being able to kill dormant, antibiotic-tolerant cells by direct lytic replication.
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\xa0Alan Dove,\xa0Rich Condit,\xa0Brianne Barker, and\xa0Jolene Ramsey
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- SARS-CoV-2 origin discussions previously on TWiV:
- TWiV 1019: Eddie Holmes on SARS-CoV-2 origins
- TWiV 1017: From Nature, not a lab
- TWiV 995: Viral origin stories
- TWiV 940: Eddie Holmes in on viral origins
- TWiV 876: Spillover market with Michael Worobey
- TWiV 762: SARS-CoV-2 origins with Robert Garry
- TWiV 760: SARS-CoV-2 origins with Peter Daszak, Thea K\xf8lsen Fischer, Marion Koopmans
- TWiV 774: Kristian Andersen, Robert Garry, and the deleted SARS-CoV-2 sequences
- Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in\xa05 Key Points\xa0(NY Times)
- Phage Paride kills\xa0dormant, antibiotic-tolerant cells\xa0of\xa0Pseudomonas aeruginosa\xa0(Nat Comm)
- Interview with\xa0Enea Maffei\xa0(Spotify)
- Timestamps by\xa0Jolene. Thanks!
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Intro music is by\xa0Ronald Jenkees
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