TWiV 1349: Smallpox and mummies
Notes de l’épisode
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.
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- Phase separation 101 (Iwasa lab)
- Early smallpox in America (Science)
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