It’s the same when doctors, researchers and epidemiologists fight any virus: The physical structure of its molecules dictate how a virus infects people and moves through their bodies as well as how to ...

Each species of virus is ingeniously assembled from just a few kinds of building block The electron microscope reveals that these infectious particles possess three principal types of symmetry.

"All bacteria have double-stranded DNA, but viruses have different kinds of structure — there are DNA genomes, RNA genomes, double-stranded, single-stranded …" Anantharaman told Live Science.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A researcher in Purdue University’s College of Science is developing a patent-pending platform technology that mimics the dual-layer structure of viruses to deliver nucleic acid ...

McMaster researchers found that bacteriophages treated under specific conditions form flower-like structures that are highly ...

But viruses can also be used to benefit human health, agriculture and the environment. Viruses are comparatively simple in structure, consisting of a piece of genetic material (RNA or DNA) enclosed in ...

A research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison produced high-resolution images of RSV structure, important for RSV ...

How did viruses evolve? Are they a streamlined form of something that existed long ago, or an ultimate culmination of smaller genetic elements joined together? Aa Aa Aa The evolutionary history of ...

In general, viruses attach to different cell surface molecules as the first step of infection. While this study provides several still images of the phage structure, the researchers do not ...