Is this assembly process conserved across different virus families? Yes. Most spherical viruses rely on the same physical principle: elastic proteins that can self-correct until they form a ...

The viral genome attracts proteins along its length, forming an initially disordered RNA-protein complex. The genome pulls proteins together, raises their local concentration, and acts as a scaffold ...

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 ...