HOUSTON -- (Feb. 16, 2009) -- If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Rice University's precise new image of a virus' protective coat is seriously undervalued. More than three years in the making ...

UNSW Sydney medical scientists have cracked a mystery whose solution has long eluded researchers. UNSW Sydney medical scientists have cracked a mystery whose solution has long eluded researchers. UNSW ...

Researchers have gained new understanding of the virus that causes hepatitis B and the 'spiky ball' that encloses its genetic blueprint. They looked at how the capsid -- a protein shell that protects ...

(Nanowerk News) Bioengineers have found a way to program the size and shape of virus particles by combining viral protein building blocks and templates made from DNA. The resulting nanostructures ...

A group of University of Chicago scientists announced a groundbreaking study that explores the role of a small molecule, called IP6, in building the HIV-1 virus capsid. The genetic information of the ...

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Latus Bio, Inc. (Latus), a biotechnology company pioneering advances in AAV gene therapy, has announced new research published today in Science Translational Medicine, ...

Inside a cell, a single protein emerges from from the cell’s protein-making machinery, then another, and another. They move about—bouncing into one another, wriggling around, and drifting away again.

With up to 2.4 million U.S. cases and over 250 million chronic cases globally, hepatitis B infection persists despite the availability of a vaccine. Vaccines work by immunizing the body against a ...