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 Ramsey

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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)
• Letters read on TWiV 1327
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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