Shigeki Nakagome

Shigeki Nakagome

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Shigeki Nakagome is a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin who specializes in the evolutionary history of viruses. He contributed to the recent study that unveiled the genetic transformation of smallpox over centuries, helping to illuminate the virus's path from a potentially milder disease to a more lethal form as it adapted to infect humans.

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Shigeki Nakagome, a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin and an author of the Camarones 9 study, noted that losing genes may have actually made smallpox better at infecting humans.

‘This is very strange’: Ancient smallpox may have been less deadly
The New Zealand Herald – country’s largest newspaper, est. 1863·New ZealandNew Zealand· 2026-08-11
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