Elusive viral 'machine' architecture finally rendered
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 05:01
in Biology & Nature
Biologists have worked with the Lambda virus as a model system for more than 50 years but they've never had an overarching picture of the molecular machines that allow it to insert or remove DNA from the cells that it infects. Now they can, thanks to an advance that highlights the intriguingly intricate way the virus accomplishes its genetic manipulations.