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TWiV 1349: Smallpox and mummies
16 August 2026

TWiV 1349: Smallpox and mummies

This Week in Virology

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TWiV explains how liquid–liquid phase separation and a phage-encoded inhibitor cooperatively drive transcriptional transition during phage SPO1 infection, and the first smallpox virus genomes from an early outbreak in South America.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Jolene Ramsey

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    Support science education at MicrobeTV Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email) Fred Murphy, a pioneer in virology (J Virol) New midge-borne orthobunyavirus sickening cattle in Europe (Science) What to Know About the Vaccines Targeted by Trump’s Executive Order (NY Times) What vaccine Executive Order gets wrong (CIDRAP) Trudy Rey’s 100th post at virology blog Transcriptional transition during phage SPO1 infection (Nucl Acids Res) Phase separation 101 (Iwasa lab) Early smallpox in America (Science) Letters read on TWiV 1349 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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