An international team of scientists has discovered that a small, low-abundance protein plays a surprisingly big role in ...

Gas vesicles are among the largest known protein nanostructures produced and assembled inside microbial cells. These hollow, ...

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 ...

Medical gas plasma can render adenoviruses harmless within a short period of time. This has been demonstrated by a recent ...

A new study, led by researchers at the University of Liverpool, has revealed how pathogenic bacteria construct tiny protein-based compartments, known as Eut microcompartments, which enable them to ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, around their genomes — a process that, while messy ...