TWiV 1049: Long COVID's book of homeostatic cats

TWiV explains how immune profiling was used to identify distinguishing features of Long COVID, and how a co-opted feline endogenous retroviral envelope promotes cell survival by controlling copper transport and homeostasis in cats.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• MicrobeTV store at Cafepress
• Spike shirts at vaccinated.us (promo code Microbetv)
• Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf)
• Features of Long COVID (Nature)
• ERV envelope mediates feline copper homeostasis (Cell Rep)
• Letters read on TWiV 1049
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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