Learn about our Editorial Policies. The M13 bacteriophage, a rod-shaped virus that infects bacteria, is adorned in a molecular coat, woven from nearly 3,000 copies of a helical protein. The protein is ...

At the heart of the virus’s ability to spread and survive is its genetic material, carefully wrapped in a protein coat like a microscopic scroll. Using cutting-edge imaging techniques ...

To fight the virus that causes influenza, one of the avenues being explored by scientists is the development of drugs capable of destabilizing its genome, which is made up of eight RNA molecules.

For a virus, the vaccine can contain just a piece of the protein coat that surrounds the virus's DNA (or RNA). Even small portion of a virus is sometimes enough to stimulate an immune response in ...

Importantly, the shells could also be coated with other virus-binding substances. In this case, the researchers used heparan sulfate, a substance that sticks to many viral protein coats. The ...

Caveolin proteins insert in the plasma membrane and self-associate, forming a caveolin coat on the surface of the membrane (Figure 4). Both the SV40 virus (a virus found in monkeys and humans ...

The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at ...

Small sections of DNA may have escaped from a cell’s genome, eventually gaining a protein coat: bingo! The first virus. The second theory suggests viruses evolved from an ancient single-cell ...