Virus Watch: Buckyball Viruses
In this short video, I show you how to make different types of virus particles using the small magnetic spheres called Buckyballs.
helical symmetry
Viruses in the extreme
Many microbes live in extreme environments, encountering conditions that are very hot, very cold, highly acidic, or very salty. The viruses that infect such microbes must also be able to retain infectivity in extreme conditions. How do they do it? Clues come from the observations that the genomes of viruses that infect Archaea in extreme …