Though treatments are available, there is no cure or vaccine from HIV, which impacts about 38 million people worldwide. It's difficult to target the RNA genome of the HIV virus in part because it ...

Scientists at the Electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC) at Diamond Light Source, in the U.K., have harnessed a new technique, using cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) and subtomogram averaging (STA) to ...

Researchers report that they have determined the precise chemical structure of the HIV capsid, a protein shell that protects the virus's genetic material and is a key to its virulence. The capsid has ...

A new technique using electron tomography and subtomogram averaging at Diamond's electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC), has solved the structure of the HIV capsid alone and in complex with host factors.

The genetic material of viruses is shielded by a protective protein covering called a capsid. Researchers in Spain have uncovered the strict selection rules that define capsid structure in spherical ...

Cryo-electron microscopy has given scientists the first glimpse at how the measles virus wraps up its genome in its protective protein container. The 4.3-Å structure provides a platform for ...

Herpesviruses are a leading cause of human viral diseases, including oral and genital blisters (herpes simplex viruses HSV-1 and HSV-2), chicken pox and shingles (varicella zoster virus), and cancers ...

Today’s comment of the day comes to us from commenter Ryan M, who responded to our call for the most incredible images of 2013 with a nominee from something that he’s been working on: The first look ...

Identification of the genes and proteins involved in phage P22 formation has permitted a detailed analysis of particle assembly, revealing some unexpected aspects. The polymerization of the major coat ...

Researchers have for the first time unravelled the complex structure of the inner protein shell of HIV. The US team, reporting in Nature, also worked out exactly how all the components of the shell or ...