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The Virus That Could’ve Ended Us is Now Saving Lives, Thanks to AI
The standout is the icosahedral nanocage, with a diameter of 75 nanometers and the capacity to hold three times more genetic material than AAVs.
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The structure of Pariacoto virus reveals a dodecahedral cage of duplex RNA
The 3.0 Å resolution crystal structure of Pariacoto virus (PaV) reveals extensive interactions between portions of the viral RNA genome and the icosahedral capsid. Under the protein shell of the ...
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Human cytomegalovirus – no longer just a DNA virus
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is classified as a DNA herpesvirus. A recent study showed that the HCMV virion contains not only DNA, but also four species of mRNA, indicating that this virus is more ...