RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, around their genomes — a process that, while messy ...

Researchers used advanced imaging techniques, conducted at Penn State’s publicly funded Core Facilities, to study the architecture of the Turnip Crinkle Virus (TCV). This plant pathogen has an ...

Many viruses, like poliovirus or enteroviruses, have icosahedral shells and need to eject their RNA at the right time and place inside a host cell. If they could bias that process, like Turnip Crinkle ...