TWiV 1349: Smallpox and mummies

This Week in Virology with Vincent Racaniello by Vincent Racaniello

Aug 16, 202602:02:43Religion & Spirituality

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 So...

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