By arranging elastic protein subunits in a perfectly symmetrical way, the virus creates a shell that is both very stable and requires the fewest building blocks. This design gives maximum protection ...
Researchers have created an AI tool called EVE-Vax that can predict and design viral proteins likely to emerge in the future. For SARS-CoV-2, panels of these “designer” proteins triggered similar ...
Every summer, Aubree Gordon, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, spends about a month in Managua, Nicaragua, when the rainy season is in full swing. But Gordon is interested ...