Viruses have been well studied, but many mysteries linger. One such mystery is how a spherical virus circumvents energy barriers to form symmetric shells. A research team has made progress is solving ...

Proteins taken from a spherical virus and combined with pieces of DNA can form tubular nanostructures, researchers report. The finding could offer clues to how such molecules self-assemble. In nature, ...

The binding of a SARS-CoV-2 virus surface protein spike -- a projection from the spherical virus particle -- to the human cell surface protein ACE2 is the first step to infection that may lead to ...

Inclusion bodies spherical in shape and varying in size from less than 1 and up to 4μ in diameter occurred in tumors incited by the wound-tumor virus (Aureogenus magnivena Black). The term spherule is ...

A watercolor by scientist-artist David S. Goodsell just might make the Zika virus easier to visualize. The painting, which depicts an area about 110 nanometers wide (a nanometer is a billionth of a ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- 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 ...