Cedric Feschotte

Senior author of the study; Barbara McClintock Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University

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Poxvirus carries a human gene it stole 100,000 years ago

Leading follow-up research on whether MCV uses BC200

A poxvirus that causes skin warts has carried a human gene for about 100,000 years. Researchers found two copies of BC200, a non-coding RNA gene active in human neurons, inside molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV), which causes the skin infections.

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