Colorized transmission electron micrograph of influenza A/H3N2 virus particles, isolated from a patient sample and then propagated in cell culture. Influenza A virus particles adapt shape—as filaments ...

The human genome contains the instructions to make tens of thousands of proteins. Each protein folds into a precise shape - and biologists are taught that defined shape dictates the protein's destined ...

A new study shows how one of Ebola virus's key proteins, VP40, uses molecular triggers in the human cell to transform itself into different tools for different jobs. The human genome contains the ...

From hot volcanic springs where the water is nearly boiling acid, a University of Virginia researcher and his colleagues have discovered how lemon-shaped viruses got their form. And that discovery ...

Influenza A viruses rapidly adjust their shape when placed in conditions that reduce infection efficiency, such as the presence of antiviral antibodies or host incompatibility. A virus' shape is ...

UPTON, NY - Flexible filamentous viruses make up a large fraction of known plant viruses and are responsible for more than half the viral damage to crop plants throughout the world. New details of ...

Lisa Eshun-Wilson receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Alba Torrents de la Peña receives funding from Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Rubicon Grant 45219118.

Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape -- to become either spheres or larger filaments -- to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions, according ...