TWiV 690: This is your brain on SARS-CoV-2
TWiV reviews the difficulties in predicting species susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection by only examining the ACE2 protein, and the olfactory mucosa as a portal of entry into the central nervous system in COVID-19 patients.
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Guest: Amy Rosenfeld
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Links for this episode- NYC will create pandemic response institute (NY Bus J)
- Comparison of ACE2 in vertebrates (PNAS)
- Olfactory transmucosal invasion of CNS by SARS-CoV-2 (Nat Neurosci)
- Letters read on TWiV 690
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Dickson \u2013 National Geographic best animal photos of 2020
Amy \u2013 American Contagions: Epidemics and the law from Smallpox to COVID-19 by John Fabian Witt
Alan \u2013 HamSCI citizen science organization
Rich \u2013 DeepMind\u2019s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures
Vincent \u2013 Army Ants: Nature\u2019s Ultimate Social Hunters by Daniel Kronauer
Intro music is by\xa0Ronald Jenkees
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