TWiV 380: Viruses visible in le microscope photonique
- March 13, 2016
- Tagged as: amoeba, birth defects, capsid, central nervous system, congenital Zika syndrome, cowpea mosaic virus, CRISPR/Cas, cryoEM, genome packaging, Guillain-Barré syndrome, intrinsic defense, meningoencephalitis, microcephaly, MIMIVIRE, mimivirus, myelitis, viral, virology, viruria, virus, viruses, Zika virus
The TWiVeroos deliver the weekly Zika Report, then talk about a cryoEM structure of a plant virus that reveals how the RNA genome is packaged in the capsid, and MIMIVIRE, a CRISPR-like defense system in giant eukaryotic viruses.