Viruses—small disease-causing parasites that can infect all types of life forms—have been well studied, but many mysteries linger. One such mystery is how a spherical virus circumvents energy barriers to form symmetric ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 9, 2020
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Scientists at NPL, working with partners from the University of Cambridge, University of Exeter, King's College London and University College London have developed a mechanism of antibacterial persistence to combat persistent ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 5, 2020
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Rice University researchers are making strides toward a set of rules to custom-design Lego-like viral capsid proteins for gene therapy.
Biotechnology
Aug 12, 2013
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Much remains to be discovered on how the HIV-1 virus infects our cells. Scientists know that it slips past the defenses of our immune system, entering white blood cells to deliver its genetic payload and hijack the cell's ...
Biotechnology
Jun 16, 2022
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Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) have become promising vehicles for delivering gene therapies to defective tissues in the human body because they are non-pathogenic and can transfer therapeutic DNA into target cells. However, ...
Biotechnology
Feb 11, 2021
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Each simple RNA virus has a genome, its "native RNA." This genome dictates how the virus replicates in cells to eventually cause disease. The genome also has the code for making a capsid, the protein shell of a virus that ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 9, 2022
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Researchers at Purdue University have determined the high-resolution structure of immature Zika virus, a step toward better understanding how the virus infects host cells and spreads.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 9, 2017
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Biologists from Indiana University and Montana State University have discovered a striking connection between viruses such as HIV and Ebola and viruses that infect organisms called archaea that grow in volcanic hot springs. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 10, 2013
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New insight on the conditions that control self-assembly in the protective shell of viruses has been published today in eLife.
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 21, 2020
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Rice University scientists have won a race to find the crystal structure of the first virus known to infect the most abundant animal on Earth.
Biochemistry
Aug 18, 2014
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