A physicist at the University of California, Riverside, and her former graduate student have successfully modeled the formation of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that spreads COVID-19, for the first time.
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 3, 2022
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How do the hundreds of individual pieces that make up viruses assemble into shapes capable of spreading disease from cell to cell?
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 22, 2022
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The reproductive cycle of viruses requires self-assembly, maturation of virus particles and, after infection, the release of genetic material into a host cell. New physics-based technologies allow scientists to study the ...
General Physics
Jan 14, 2021
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The influenza A virus is surrounded by a lipid bilayer that forms the outermost layer much like the plasma membranes on our own cells. Immediately under this lipid bilayer is a dense protein layer formed from M1 matrix protein. ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 10, 2020
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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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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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Want to make a virus? It's easy: combine one molecule of genomic nucleic acid, either DNA or RNA, and a handful of proteins, shake, and in a fraction of a second you'll have a fully-formed virus.
Bio & Medicine
Dec 7, 2015
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Researchers have cracked a code that governs infections by a major group of viruses including the common cold and polio.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 4, 2015
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Mathematicians at the University of York have joined forces with experimentalists at the University of Leeds to take an important step in discovering how viruses make new copies of themselves during an infection.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 24, 2014
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Every fourth breath you take comes from cyanobacteria, which populate the planet's waters. Progenitors of these microscopic, photosynthetic organisms are believed to have been the first organisms to release oxygen into the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 23, 2013
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