They’re potentially prying open Pandora’s pox. French scientists have sparked fears of yet another pandemic after reviving a “zombie virus” that had been trapped under a frozen lake in Russia for a ...

Thawing of frozen landscapes has the potentional to unleash infectious “zombie viruses” that have been locked underground for thousands of years, according to new research. One quarter of the Northern ...

In November 2022, European researchers announced they had reanimated a virus that had been frozen for almost 50,000 years. The researchers cautioned that their work points to a potential public health ...

If you’ve been on social media recently, you’ve probably seen headlines and posts about a so-called “zombie” virus revived from permafrost, or ground that constantly stays frozen, after nearly 50,000 ...

The World Health Organization’s decision to declare mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years may seem like déjà vu — but there are key differences between the strain that ...

A team of scientists revived a nearly 50,000-year-old virus, and others, from Siberian permafrost. The viruses proved to still be infectious, but only in amoebas, not humans, the researchers said. The ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers investigated the main source of editing of the mpox (MPX) virus (MPXV) genome. Study: APOBEC3F is the main source of editing ...