Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) ...

"The E1E2 complex is very flimsy - it's like a bag of wet spaghetti, always changing its shape - and that's why it's been extremely challenging to image at high resolution," says co-first author Lisa ...

Xurong Wang, Fuxian Zhang, Rui Su, Xiaowu Li, Wenyuan Chen, Qingxiu Chen, Tao Yang, Jiawei Wang, Hongrong Liu, Qin Fang, Lingpeng Cheng Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United ...

A virus may be microscopic, but it contains thousands of nucleic acid bases strategically packaged into a protein shell. Knowing how the virus organizes these vast information stores in a compact ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 4 (January 28, 2020), pp. 2099-2107 (9 pages) Nonsegmented negative-stranded (NNS) RNA viruses, among ...

Toward the goal of efficient editing of farm animals for genetic improvements, this study explores an upgraded form of nuclease PE (uPEn). Based on the resolved structure of the NiV polymerase L-P ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLOS Pathogens, researchers investigated humoral and cell-mediated immune responses to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, ...

(The Hill) — An ancient viral infection may have given animals the tools to become fast, coordinated and smart, a new study has found. According to a paper published on Thursday in Cell, complex ...