TWiV reviews the administration’s call for fools gold-standard science, NIH may publish in-house, avian influenza viruses in birds in China, and Omicron pathogenicity and immune responses.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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Links for this episode

• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• Fool’s Gold Standard Science (Nature)
• NIH may publish in-house (Stat News)
• Diversity of H9N2 in China (Nat Micro)
• Omicron and immunity (Cell Rep)
• Letters read on TWiV 1225
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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