The word "virus" is often associated with negative connotations. However, it is important to note that not all viruses are harmful. In fact, there are many viruses that live inside our bodies and play ...

Team says approach provides insights into complexities of hierarchical assembly in nature. Scientists have developed a physical process that allows a harmless virus to mimic the way single ...

Circumscribed by a well-resolved dsDNA ring, the portal has the appearance of 12 well-resolved turbine-like densities (180 Å in diameter) with nearly equivalent angular spacing (Fig. 3c; see also ...

A research team at McMaster University has developed a targeted approach to treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) using ...

Bacteriophages (viruses that invade bacteria and can kill them) have gained renewed interest as part of measures to combat the growing tide of antimicrobial resistance. This well-documented phenomenon ...

The pandemic of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused the death of at least 270,000 people as of the 8th of May 2020. This work stresses the potential role of bacteriophages to decrease the ...

An electron micrograph— a photograph taken by means of a transmission electron microscope—of the DT57C bacteriophage. These types of images have been used to obtain a three-dimensional structure of ...

Structure of an entire DT57C bacteriophage. The entire virus was reconstructed in three dimensions at near-atomic resolution and visualized in this animation. The word “virus” is often associated with ...