How a virus packages its genetic material - EurekAlert

A team led by Roya Zandi, a professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside, has developed a theory and performed a series of simulations that may help explain how a virus finds its native genome and how capsids form around it and not around other RNAs in …

image: From left to right: The green triangles mimic capsid proteins. In the absence of a viral genome, they assemble around smaller segments of RNA. However, the shell is stressed and can be easily … [+4566 chars]

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