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

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The outer shell, called the capsid (yellow and purple) envelopes the viral RNA genome (blue). Illustration credit: Janet Iwasa Accomplishing a feat that had been a ...

A new combination of microscopy methods has revealed exquisite detail of the virus assembly process used by herpes simplex ...

MADISON - A study of the reproductive apparatus of a model virus is bolstering the idea that broad classes of viruses - including those that cause important human diseases such as AIDS, SARS and ...

Scientists used artificial intelligence to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of ...

Researchers have shown for the first time how Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), which causes an aggressive skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma, initiates DNA replication in host cells. University ...

A new combination of microscopy methods has revealed exquisite detail of the virus assembly process used by herpes simplex virus during replication. Additionally, by integrating cryo-light microscopy ...