WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Determining the structure of a virus is an important step in understanding and treating viral disease. For decades, structural biologists have been using cryo-electron ...
In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* server, researchers designed two dumbbell-1 (DB-1) mutant Zika virus (ZIKV) infectious clones termed ZIKV-TL.PK and ZIKV-p.2.5’. While the former disrupted ...
This week, a new paper described how researchers pieced together the entire molecular structure of the protein shell of the HIV virus using GPU-based simulations. This remarkable achievement not only ...