TWiV describes a human cerebral organoid model for Ebola virus persistence, and brown bullhead catfish melanoma, a novel transmissible cancer. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Revamp of how NIH scores research grant proposals (Nature) Kansas BSL-4 lab faces more delays (Science) Ebola virus persistence in a human cerebral organoid model (Nat Micro) Hidden cost of immune privilege (Nat Micro) Transmissible melanoma of catfish (Nature) Skin cancer spreads between catfish (Nature) Tasmania devil cancer vaccine (Nature) Letters read on TWiV 1351 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Picks of the Week Rich – The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. Corey Alan – Ingrained, by Callum Robinson Vincent – NYC&#x27;s 5 Broken Skyscrapers — Which One Dies First? Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

Ebola Virus Brains and Contagious Catfish Cancers

This Week in Virology

This Week in Virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick. From Microbe TV, this is TWiV. This Week in Virology, episode 1351, recorded on August 21st, 2026. I'm Vincent Racaniello and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.

Joining me today from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit. Hey there. My little desktop thing here says it's 101 outside and I believe it. It's a clear blue sky. We are in the depths of this stuff now, you know, where you look 10 days out and it's over 100 degrees every day. So that's not... It's the end of August. Is that normal? Yeah, that's not all that unusual.

Because here it's 26 and cloudy. It's chilling up here. Yeah. No, it's not going to start cooling down until... Well, sometime into September. And cooling is in air quotes there. Cooling. Also joining us from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove. Good to be here. 74 Fahrenheit 23C and kind of overcast, but not bad. Man. This is the old dude episode. That's right.

I don't like doing old dude episodes because we do have women on this program, but they all just coincidentally decided not to come today. We do have one, two, three, four women and actually three guys, right? Yeah. I think that's right. Yeah. Well, I mean, Dixon is vaguely here in the background. Yeah, I see him in the background there. Yeah, he's there. We have a paper that Dixon would like today, actually. It would have been interesting. Dixon liked all the papers.

Some more than others. Yeah. Dixon, I miss Dixon. He was fun. Absolutely. I wonder what he's doing. Fly fishing. He's probably, yeah, in podcasting a little bit.

Ebola Virus Brains and Contagious Catfish Cancers

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