To find out more about the monkeypox virus and the current outbreak, The Scientist spoke with Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Rimoin has been studying ...

This giant virus has a much larger size and bigger genome than any other known virus. Analysis of this intriguing virus may shed light on basic questions of viral evolution and, perhaps ...

An outbreak of infections with the mpox virus—formerly known as monkeypox—in Europe in 2022 ... It consists of an oval core enclosing the viral genome and the proteins necessary for ...

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scientists would need samples of the modified virus to develop a new vaccine and therapeutics—the legacy smallpox samples would be scientifically useless. Similarly, these smallpox samples have no ...

The molluscum contagiosum (MC) virus (MCV) is a dermatotropic poxvirus, and the causative agent of MC. Unlike smallpox and human monkeypox diseases, MC is nonlethal, common and worldwide.